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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/05/14 15:10, Geordie Guy wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM,
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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?</div>
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<div>1) Infringing copyright is not a criminal offence in
Australia unless it meets various secondary criteria.
Commercial scale, public display, advertising and
infringing work, circumvent technology protection measure
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Can you link to the relevant laws about this? Genuinely curious to
know the specific secondary criteria and their definitions.<br>
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<div>2) The rights for distribution are a matter between
Netflix and other parties who provide them content under
an agreement which includes that they not distribute it to
Australia. If they do, that's a matter for them versus
their content producers, not between them and their
subscribers. It is a violation of Netflix ToS to access
the site outside of the licensed area, so under that ToS
they could cancel your account. I'm sure they are
actively investing in ways of cancelling 200,000
subscribers in Australia and forgoing $1.4m in revenue a
month.</div>
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Yes I can imagine they are not trying too hard to block AU users,
but if they are negligent in applying the terms of their
distribution the content owners may have something to say about it,
so they probably do a 'bare minimum'.<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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
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<div>Not sure what legitimate in this context means. Bottom
line is they are not planning a service here because they
basically already are and were they to do so officially
would upset heaps of people they do business with.</div>
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Legitimate in this context is content distributed to me as an
Australian resident, that does not break any distribution agreements
or Terms of Service of the services I am utilising to access that
content. For all intents and purposes, I am watching that content
having paid through proper channels to do so.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 26/05/14 14:55, Geordie
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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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