People outside the United States have to suffer through all that for access to a subset of the full Netflix library. And Netflix is one of the better companies in that regard. Most of them simply tell me the content is "not available in my country". And when people ask them why, they have the gall to blame "piracy".
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Ironicallly I think this is why the privacy 'war' can never be won by these corporations. I live in a small European country where even if you subscribe to Netflix, Amazon (which isn't officially available here), cable TV, and whatever else you can find, you still won't get a lot of new movies and shows that you may want to watch. The only way you can get them is by pirating them, so that's what people do.
The problem is piracy isnt geo-blocked, so if someone here pirates a movie and shares it, it's also available to someone in the US.
I'm not sure why they keep pushing these technical restrictions, when really the issue is they don't allow people to buy their content in the first place.
Yep, I couldn't agree more. I've tried subscribing to Amazon Prime purely for the shows/movies (not like we have next day shipping or something), and I couldn't find a single movie/show that's not geolocked. Not even their originals.
Ahaha, yes I should also mentioned I did all that to have access to netflix originals and little else.