It’s official, Netflix has surpassed Sky Deutschland in a landmark moment for European OTT video, and an irreversible one at that. Reaching 5.1 million subscribers and toppling the country’s leading pay TV operator in the process, which has 4.8 million subscribers, is a brutal sign of things to come for the rest of pay TV in Europe. The change of thrones came following a report from UK research firm Ampere Analysis, which was picked up and circulated by SVoD start-up Cirkus, hoping to whip up some free publicity. Figures show Netflix overtook Sky Deutschland sometime in Q3, which in all honesty we did not predict to happen so soon; a testament to streaming growth in Europe’s largest economy. Yet there…