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Their efforts to produce new content, secure the rights for additional content, and diversify through 190 countries have resulted in the company racking up billions in debt: $21.9 billion as of September 2017, up from $16.8 billion from the previous year.

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Netflix released an estimated 126 original series and films in 2016, more than any other network or cable channel. By January 2016, Netflix services operated in more than 190 countries. Since 2012, Netflix has taken more of an active role as producer and distributor for both film and television series, and to that end, it offers a variety of 'Netflix Original' content through its online library. Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series House of Cards. The company expanded internationally in 2010 with streaming available in Canada, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean. Netflix expanded its business in 2007 with the introduction of streaming media while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental business. Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings abandoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the initial DVD rental business. Today, the company produces and distributes content from countries all over the globe. Netflix is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company also has offices in Brazil, the Netherlands, India, Japan, and South Korea. It is available worldwide except in the following: mainland China (due to local restrictions), Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea (due to U.S. As of April 2020, Netflix had over 182 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including 69 million in the United States. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. is an American media-services provider and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

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