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This is what I've always wondered. It would be trivial for them to figure out where the subscriber was located based on any number of factors related to billing, yet they don't seem to care.

Hopefully the movie studios will be ignorant of that for a while yet.

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They clearly do care:

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Then how come it's so trivial for anyone with any netflix account to view content from other regions?

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Clearly, they're not very good at what they're trying.

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Or they just don't care.

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I quote again:

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Yeah, what they say and what they do are very different things. It's not in Netflix's interest to **** off the content providers.

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Not really in their interest to bleep off their customers either. Sadly, they are really just an intermediary, with media companies holding the lions share of the dictating power. Stuck between a rock and a hard place are where Netflix are.

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Indeed, which is why they'll publicly say they're doing everything they can.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30726631

Do we believe them.

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"For example, items of hardware such as DVD players were designed only to be compatible with media designated to the same geographical region."

My DVD player (new or old) has been region free for many years now. Easiest thing to circumvent.

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Hmm

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I think they're just trying to illustrate the point that "region locking" is a long-standing practice and not new to online distribution.

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I don't get it, if you are a tv production company and knock out something like 24, you are going to want everyone to see it and not just x million people in America. The fact that there is this issue with people trying to access the content is a testament to the demand for it and all Netflix need to do is negotiate the right price for it with the distributors and then pass that cost onto the customer. E.g. price going up from £11/month (I have no idea what it is) to £15/month for unlimited access to the entire library. There should be one global where everything is shared. All the actors, script writers, directors etc like you to believe they are making "art" so it should be able to be appreciated by everyone.

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The media industry rarely works in logical ways.

Furthermore, often a particular company only owns rights to a product in any given region, and a different company has exclusive rights in other countries.

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I know I have previously stated (twice) that I seemed to max out around 6MB/sec on my vpn, I am doing some chunky downloading atm and it is holding steady at 9.5MB/sec which I think is excellent for a Saturday evening so that equates to 80mbits for those who are still looking.