Re:Personal VPN Services are Snake-Oil
by JumpCrisscross on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:09PM
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> Miramax can't argue that NordVPN acted to interfere with their licensing scheme with Netflix
No, but they could argue that the VPN user interfered with their licensing scheme. (If everyone in a region circumvented geoblocks, why would someone in that region pay for regional rights to that content?) They wouldn’t, because it’s not worth it.
No it's not.
Tortious interference with a business relationship is no doubt what you're referring to here, but it's a long bow with multiple layers of indirection. It is "intentionally acting to prevent someone from successfully establishing or maintaining business relationships with others".
Miramax, as a content distributor, might license their content to Netflix.
You are a customer of Netflix.
Now say you are a customer of NordVPN.
For one, NordVPN isn't trying to prevent you maintaining a business relationship with Netflix. Nor is it trying to prevent Netflix having a business relationship with Miramax.
NordVPN may provide you means by which you can choose to be in violation of your TOS with Netflix. It's not acting to ensure you are.
Netflix doesn't have to -allow- this, hence VPN/proxy detection. But they have recourse, drop you as a customer, for you, the customer's, actions, not for NordVPN's actions. Miramax can't argue that NordVPN acted to interfere with their licensing scheme with Netflix.