This is because most people want competition within a country (think local streaming services to compete with the big players), so companies will often grant the streaming license to those smaller companies that aren’t Netflix, which (as we’ve seen happen in the US within the last 3 years) is overall a worse experience for the consumer. Local media libraries (via a legal blu-ray selection & storage device of course) are the best since it doesn’t give the rights holders a say on where you can watch it, just that ‘I paid for it, so I’m going to watch it’.

Netflix could just take the money, let vpn users watch, because realistically, they have no idea where the user behind the vpn is actually located. If people want to pay another service just to give you money, let them watch the damn shows.

> So.. people are actively looking for vpns and proxies to actually pay netflix to get content, and netflix actively fights then, so they cannot get the content they (want to) pay for.

Correct. Because the contracts they have to sign to get the shows you want to watch often come with crazy regional licensing.