The American companies have always screwed Europe.

The UK citizens may not have experienced that much of screwing by the Americans, but I have never been given a chance to download songs from the iTunes Store, buy games at PlayStation Network or play games via Xbox Live. Yeah, even XBL is not officially available in Poland.
Thus, when I refer to “Europe” here, I generally mean “the UK”.

Microsoft is planning to boost the number of movies available for download on its Xbox Live Marketplace for Ireland [and the UK] from the present 30 or 40 films to up to 400 movies, in line with the US.

Over two years after the release of Xbox 360, someone has finally realised that people across the pond do use the Xbox Live Marketplace and they do want to be able to download the latest films.
More than a million of XBL subscribers live in the UK and Ireland, and I bet at least half a million all over the Europe. Of course, Microsoft is a US-based company, but how the hell could you forget where the Pilgrims came from?
People do watch the same movies here as the US-ers do (maybe except the French, but that’s a different story).
Obviously I’m glad that I’ll finally be able to rent a film other than the 300 from the XBLM, but isn’t that a bit too late?
From what I’ve seen during the past two years, Microsoft has been trying to make people understand they don’t need any CDs/DVDs/HD DVDs to watch their movies, all they need is a TV. And the 360, of course. Despite the spectacular success of their console all over the world, they - and many of the American companies - have been supporting one of the continents (guess which!) much more than the other ones.

I can understand delaying the releases of games that need to be translated, or even the retail ones as they have to be regionalised for the PAL system, but why the hell do we have to wait two weeks (often even longer) for a demo to come out in Europe? Is it more profitable to release the games in Europe a month later than in the US?
When we get the games, the Americans aren’t playing them anymore, because they got bored with them already.

The Xbox Live Marketplace has always been one of the major advantages of the 360. However, all the hyping reviews I’ve read before buying my 360 were probably written by Americans, because our Marketplace consists of three demos and four movies, two of which are the Dead or Alive Xtreme trailers.

Screwing Chechnya? Okay, I can live with that. Screwing Madagascar? That’s understandable. But screwing a whole continent?
Nah, Microsoft, you’d better get working on it. Because just as I’m not going to buy the Gold subscription to play on slowly working servers, I’m not going to use the Marketplace to watch 300 for the umpteenth time.
Dead or Alive trailers are fine, though.