Beginning Monday Netflix will take away all leisure and actuality reveals from its platform in Vietnam and solely distribute film-related content material to adjust to native legal guidelines.
The U.S.-based streaming service would solely present movies which were categorized, the Authority of Broadcasting and Digital Info mentioned in a latest launch.
In Vietnam, movie and leisure reveals fall underneath totally different classes and are topic to totally different rules.
Distributors of leisure reveals have to arrange an organization in Vietnam, however movie distributors don’t.
Netflix has to take away content material leisure and actuality reveals corresponding to “Love on the Spectrum,” “Longest Third Date” and “Down For Love.”
After the decree on leisure reveals got here into impact in 2023, some platforms withdrew from Vietnam, together with U.S.-based Amazon’s Prime Video service which shut down in October after a seven-year presence.
China’s Iqiyi was flagged the identical month for distributing leisure reveals because it has registered solely to offer film-related content material.
The broadcasting authority mentioned final 12 months that the enforcement of such rules goals to make sure truthful competitors between home and worldwide tv companies.
Earlier overseas platforms benefited from regulatory gaps, with some avoiding taxes or distributing prohibited content material, it mentioned.
“New rules, issued to make sure equity, have brought on some firms to stop operations in Vietnam,” Le Quang Tu Do, the authority’s director, mentioned on the time.
“Adjusting enterprise fashions to adjust to native legal guidelines is a routine a part of doing enterprise.”
