As some of you know, I live in Norway, that's nice and all, but a lot of the TV shows from the US don't get aired over here. To watch the Clone Wars, I'm relying on one of the local TV networks to purchase the show from whoever has the rights to sell it. And only the most popular shows end up on Norwegian television.

I don't know how popular the show is in the US, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Even if the show ends up on Norwegian TV, it probably won't be for a few months, and probably on the Scandinavian version of Cartoon Network, dubbed naturally. (I would like to watch it with the original voice cast)

I found out that the Clone Wars series is available on SW.com. At first I got really excited, but when I tried to watch it I get this message: "The content you are trying to view is only available in certain areas."
To annoy me even further, I had to watch some commercial about a cell phone first, the commercial, apparently, was available.

I think this sucks! I'm a paying member of the official SW fan club, they upload the movies, but I'm not able to watch them!

There are two possible reasons for this that I can think of.
A: The system is unable to stream the videos over seas.
B: The federal copyright laws of the US does not extend beyond their boarders, so the producers don't allow the show to viewed (and possibly illegally copied) outside the borders.

Because of the commercial that I was able to see, I'm guessing the latter. This is annoying because I'm a huge SW fan, and a member of Hyperspace, but I'm still not able to watch the Clone Wars series. I almost feel like SW.com is giving me the finger.

I guess I have to wait until I can by the first season, and when is the first season going to be available in stores?
Also, I'm probably going to have the same problems with the Live Action series as well