Movie industry: we're not going to give a bunch of people any way to pay us for our content.
Also movie industry: why are so many people watching our content without paying us for it?
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I live in the nordics, and I can't show my kid Netflix kids' content in my native central european language because only nordic languages are licenced here.
If you don't want me to get smart on using VPN's, maybe it's time to evaluate your licensing system first..
Hum... It's about VPN and TOR, not piracy, so no it's:
Movie Industry: Those criminals are breaking the Law and paying us to watch our content in ways that we really do not want them to!
I don't really understand people who do that. If I pirate, the movie industry disapproves. If I pay but use a VPN, the movie industry still disapproves, I have to use its DRM-infested client and an operating system it approves of, and have less money.
This is because foreign distribution for movies is usually sold to a 3rd party prior to release by studios. They get an upfront payment.
That's why US box office has always been the only metric that "Hollywood" cares about.
Much like the music industry, the need for the Hollywood-machine, which is effectively a bank that gives loans to make movies - just as record labels would give musicians a loan against future earnings to make an album.
The barrier to enter the world of video content creation has led to more independent films and the platform to restrict revenue from studio-funded productions are evaporating because they were so late and backwards in how they approached streaming.