<div dir="ltr">I don't think there is any way that it could be considered 'illegal' as such.. as there isn't an actual law against it... especially if we're actually paying for it.<div><br></div><div>My opinion is that the geo-restrictions are their own invention, like DVD regions, and is simply their way of trying to control and monetize the content at higher costs to different markets.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't feel any ethical or moral issues in paying for a service out of the US and using an unblock-us kind of service to get to it. If you wanted to get really into it... we ARE in the US as far as they are concerned... our data leaves their network and enters ours - in the US... because we take it elsewhere after that is no ones business.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All these issues are simply to try to protect revenue streams of a nature which are dying and they are trying to hang on as long as possible. Foxtel, like the free-to-air channels are a decaying model who need to grasp the globalisation reality - which I am sure they do, but the longer they can delay it the more truckloads of cash they can keep making.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is interesting: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blog/gadgets-on-the-go/are-regionfree-dvd-players-legal-20120208-1qs42.html">http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blog/gadgets-on-the-go/are-regionfree-dvd-players-legal-20120208-1qs42.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"<i>....<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20.428800582885742px">the Attorney-General’s department confirmed that region-free DVD and Blu-ray players are exempt from the Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) included in the US Free Trade Agreement. According to a </span><a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/Documents/Copyright%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20Technological%20Protection%20Measures%20liability%20scheme.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:15px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(72,72,72);text-decoration:none">copyright fact sheet issued by the Attorney-General’s department</a></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20.428800582885742px"><i>;</i>"</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>So, why shouldn't streaming from another location be considered the same thing. Remember, this isn't theft, the content owner is getting paid.<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20.428800582885742px"><br>
</span></div><div><br></div><div>Well that is my thought anyhow.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>...Skeeve</div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - </b><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Joseph Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@apcs.com.au" target="_blank">joe@apcs.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The problem with this though is it is still technically illegal is
it not? The rights are not for distribution in AU so you are kind of
breaking copyright just as much as a torrent? I suppose the only
moral standpoint is you are providing money to someone which is
likely to end up in the content owner getting <b>some</b> return,
but its only a small moral victory and still not 'legitimate'.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 26/05/14 14:55, Geordie Guy wrote:
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<div>Unblock-us.com is $5 a month and Netflix is $7 a month.
That's what I do, $14 a month. I don't know how much that
particular Unblock-Us solution makes up of the up-to 200,000
Australian subscribers who choose to purchase a Netflix
subscription because there's heaps of other options, but it
works for me and took approximately 8 seconds to set up.</div>
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