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Meanwhile, France insists that 40 percent of mainstream broadcasters 'content must be in French, while existing SVoD providers – including Canal Plus' "Infinity" and Wild Bunch's "Filmo TV" – are currently forced to wait 36 months after a film's cinema release before they can stream that content online. These rules – the so-called "Cultural Exception" – mean that France retains a healthy film and music industry despite fierce competition from the Anglo-Saxon world. And while some commentators have said this model is outdated as ever-increasing numbers of people get their audiovisual entertainment online rather than more traditional TV and radio media, France is abandless continuing to do all it can to protect its homegrown industries. As mentioned above, these are hurdles, Netflix initially started offering SVoD services in France, the toughest foreign market to enter as of yet, during the fourth quarter of 2014. At MIPCOM 2014, Netflix chief content officer Sarandos went on record for saying that viewer behavior, in Germany and France, was "on par with our successful territories elsewhere in the world" and that Netflix prison dramedy 'Orange is the black' was the most watched show on the SVoD service in all of the six European territories. Sarandos added that the viewing mix in Europe – about 70 percent television series and 30 percent feature films – was also similar to that on Netflix services around the world.

Therefore, the major threat to SVoD providers, and their more traditional video distributors, lies elsewhere. The culprits: illegal video streaming programs and providers While the illegal downloading of music has declined compared to previous measurements (about a quarter of people who use music streaming services still download music illegally, compared to 32 percent in September 2014), 35 percent of people who use SVoD services are still downloading movies and TV series illegally. This is according to the study Trends in Digital Entertainment, from January 2015, which is generated by GfK and appears once per quarter. Some illegal SVoD providers are alive and kicking such as Time4popcorn. They offer SVoD services to members of the public, on the internet, without having paid proper and agreed licensing royalties to the owners of the rights in the video content which is being streamed on their channels.

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One of these illegal SVoD providers was Aereo.com, which filed for Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings in November 2014. In June 2014, the US Federal Supreme Court handed down a decision in ABC v Aereo. Aereo, a TV-over-the-internet service, had introduced a disruptive business model, using thousands of very small antennas stored in a warehouse, to live stream broadcast signals which they had encoded into packets, directly into the home of users.