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Originally Posted by ocav
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.
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Netflix terms and conditions say:
"You may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such movie or TV show. The content that may be available to watch will vary by geographic location. Netflix will use technologies to verify your geographic location".
If you use a device or 3rd party service to evade this restriction, your viewing is still 'unauthorised' - fooling their technology does not make it otherwise. Unauthorised access to computer data is 'hacking' and an offence under the CMA.
It is impossible to say what the sterling UK Netflix subscription rate might be if it covered the full range of content - media and tech companies are adept at differentiating markets.
To be fair this problem is not of Netflix's making - they are trying to break into a market already stitched up by others - and they are doing no more (or less) than they legally have to. However if the nasty stuff ever hits the fan, they are pretty well covered by the above, the user is not.