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    Geo-location restrictions for  a paid service is a nonsense that
    only a<br>
    marketing idiot could devise.<br>
    Imagine a genuine, paid up, Netflix account holder who flies to
    almost<br>
    anywhere from his/her current location, and discovers that their
    account<br>
    is effectively blocked due to geo-location tracking.<br>
    Hulu already does this, and Netflix is not far behind.<br>
    With this kind of nonsense going on at the behest of Hollywood, it
    is no wonder<br>
    that users choose to circumvent geo-location tracking by assorted
    means.<br>
    <br>
    Youtube has obviously been hit by "take down" requests for much of
    its music<br>
    as most of the stuff I see is of the bootleg recordings at live
    concerts rather than<br>
    the original copy put up by Joe Bloggs from his DVD 4 years ago.<br>
    And that is fair. I have no problem at all with that.<br>
    <br>
    But what intrigues me is that I can watch local artists who are well
    known, in<br>
    music videos put up by the <u>record company</u>, but sending a
    link to a friend<br>
    overseas renders a "unavailable in this country" message.<br>
    Which is completely illogical. If it is free here, why is it
    restricted somewhere else?<br>
    Surely "free", is "free"? .<br>
    <br>
    There is something completely insane in the way Hollywood and the
    record companies<br>
    are attempting to divide and conquer the world, when actually, all
    they seem to be<br>
    doing is alienating us all.<br>
    <br>
    They will 'reap what they sow" as a consequence. And Pirate Bay
    & its ilk will continue in some<br>
    form or another to accommodate the alternative. <br>
    No matter how much money the Hollywood lawyers are paid.<br>
    The law of supply and demand in a marketplace is not complicated.<br>
    *Cranks up Tixati*<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/01/2015 10:59 p.m., Tim Raphael
      wrote:<br>
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      <div>An update: </div>
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      <div>Engadget got a reply from Netflix directly stating they are
        not handing VPNs etc any different to how they have previously.</div>
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      <div>(See the update at the bottom on the page)<br>
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        Regards,
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        <div>Tim</div>
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        On 4 Jan 2015, at 4:51 pm, Skeeve Stevens <<a
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          <div dir="ltr">hahahaha... indeed.  Sony do have a decent
            infrastructure with the PlayStation network, but they need
            distributors like all content creators because Sony don't
            have enough contend to attract customers of their own in
            scale.. no one really does.
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            <div>Btw.. it is DPRK.</div>
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                            ...Skeeve</div>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM,
              Matt Palmer <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:mpalmer@hezmatt.org" target="_blank">mpalmer@hezmatt.org</a>></span>
              wrote:<br>
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                .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On
                Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:33:43PM +1100, Skeeve Stevens
                wrote:<br>
                > Whatever happens, Netflix are going to have to be
                'seen' to be trying to do<br>
                > something, otherwise they may start to lose content
                deals... They aren't so<br>
                > big that losing Sony or others wouldn't hurt them.<br>
                <br>
                Sony don't need Netflix to help them with Internet
                distribution, they've got<br>
                quite the deal going with PRNK (or belligerent
                ex-employees, depending on<br>
                who you prefer to believe).<br>
                <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                    - Matt<br>
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                    --<br>
                    I tend to think of "solution" as just a pretentious
                    term for "thingy".<br>
                    Doing that word substitution in my head makes IT
                    marketing literature<br>
                    somewhat more tolerable.<br>
                                    -- lutchann, in <a
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