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Originally Posted by Gunslinger
Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990?
The Netflix T&C are primarily there to cover their backs in case the rights owners come after them.
Certain content is not available in the UK because exclusive rights have been sold to other parties, e.g. Sky. The subscription you pay Netflix in the UK reflects that content set.
The price Sky etc. pay rights holders reflects that exclusivity, in expectation of income from subscriptions. People accessing that material by misrepresenting their location deprive them of that income and are surely just as guilty of 'piracy' as downloading it from torrents.
Rights holders are big companies and big money is involved. Just because they have not hitherto pursued this issue does not mean they will not do so, particularly if they see their business interests threatened.
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VPN's are not illegal, and there are no doubt many legitimate uses for them.
However. using them for "unauthorised" access to "data held in any computer, or to enable any such access to be secured" probably IS an offence under the CMA 1990. The Netflix T&C presumably make it quite clear what is and is not 'authorised'.
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Its not illegal and not against CMA.
Netflix protect the rights holder by Geo-Blocking the content and therefore fill their half of the bargain.
If someone uses a filter to gain access to the content by fooling the website into thinking it is somewhere else is again not against anything. The price of Netflix is the same regardless of where you access it, therefore you are paying for the access to the content and the rights holders are getting their monies.
If Netflix really didnt like VPNs then they wouldn't allow people to sign into US Netflix with their UK account.