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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by rpigab on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:28AM (#34259969)
Funny, I'm not from the US, all I get from https://dvd.netflix.com/ is a 404 page not found error.

Maybe that's the perfect use case for subscription-based VPNs, renting DVDs from an American IP address... Hope it fits through the IP tunnel.

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by dotancohen on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:32AM (#34261050)
Actually, though the page literally has the string "404" in the title, it returns an HTTP 200 and redirects via Javascript.

  $ curl -I https://dvd.netflix.com/
  ...
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? by yardie on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:31PM (#34263335)
They probably don't have DVD rental at all in your country. Netflix in the US/CA and Lovefilm in the UK were the only DVD/Bluray mailing service that I'm aware of. Once they were able to offer streaming internationally, setting up mailorder service probably wasn't even considered.
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