

Netflix plot: Google against visionary German inventors Netflix is thus taking on a rather difficult genre, namely into the topic of patent protection and patent infringement of programming code. The new Netflix series “The Billion Dollar Code” is around a real-life patent dispute: Did Google Earth steel Terra Vision’s code? How much truth is there in the Netflix narrative about the creation of Google Maps? The Netflix plot in a reality check:ĭid Google Earth (on which Google Maps is based) steal the code from Terra Vision? That is the topic of a Netflix series currently being shown in Germany on the streaming service under the title “The Billion Dollar Code”.
