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>These changes came after copyright holders repeatedly complained that ‘pirates’ were bypassing Netflix’s geographical restrictions.

But this isn't even against pirates, this targets people who go through trouble not to pirate, and instead forces them to pirate to be able to watch certain things at all.



This is just an example of antiquated media companies trying to change the definition of "piracy" to include paying customers bypassing geo-restrictions.


It's strange, how did the copyright holders figure out this behavior was increasing or that it was a problem? What metrics are they looking at?


YouTube ads for VPNs would be my guess.




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