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Old 08-08-2010, 04:39 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by eric11210 View Post
It's no different than Hulu or Netflix which also georestrict their content for the same reason. It's not that they don't want to stream all over the world and make money from it. It's that they're restricted from doing so by legal issues (though in the case of Hulu, they are quite vindictive about it, even going so far as to block VPN access when they can find the IP addresses for them, though that's another story).
That's because Hulu is funded by advertisers, and naturally those advertisers are wasting their money if their ads are seen by people outside their own market.
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