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Re:Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with... by newoneyeah on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:07AM (#8334754)
Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.
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Re:Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with... by Quequau on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:22AM (#8334799)
Netflix support straight out told me to do this... and I wonder about it.

I'm sort of at the point where I don't see a whole lot of difference between just torrenting whatever it is I want to watch and using a VPN to circumvent copyright restrictions... except using bittorrent is cheaper and more amenable to my crappy unreliable Internet service.

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Re:Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with... by newoneyeah on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:58AM (#8334919)
The difference is that when you're using Netflix you're actually paying the people who make the stuff you watch.
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Re:Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with... by Quequau on Thursday September 18, 2014 @09:07AM (#8334962)
Well, no. I would actually be paying Netflix and some company providing a VPN and neither of them are making the stuff I watch.
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Re:Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with... by newoneyeah on Thursday September 18, 2014 @10:56AM (#8335520)
Netflix pays the content owners / studios for the content they serve, and so the screenwriters/directors/actors/producers get paid if you use Netflix.
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