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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:40PM (#28150185)
I think back to the beginning of the Internet.

The point was to connect computers together, and users, whatever their geographical location was. I'm still not certain why we allowed geographical restrictions to exist on these networks of tubes.

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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by netflix_temp on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:25PM (#28150512)
Media licensing, The broadcast industry, and the lawyers firmly attached to it, pre-existed the Internet.

So now we have laws and customs from the 1930s governing streaming tv on the Internet.

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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by mannerheim on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:10AM (#28153483)
Don't worry, with new laws requiring x% of content has to be made in a country, we can ensure that geolocking is enshrined in both old and modern laws.
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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by 908B64B197 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:49PM (#28159992)
These laws are simply ridiculous. Good content simply sells. Just look at Parasites, Money Heist. International success from small local foreign studios.
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Re:Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP ad... by dasil003 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @08:46PM (#28150248)
No one allowed it.

There was a business need so someone stepped up to fill the void by geomapping IPs. Given legal compliance concerns this was inevitable, even completely ignoring the profit potential from even very coarse-grained (ie. country-level) differential pricing.

Actively preventing this would have necessitated some pretty ugly tradeoffs which no one was incentivized to make.

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