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Originally Posted by Barcey
I'll repeat again, the blog post was not about if it was necessary or compulsory to access a web site that violates copyright. It was about the MPAA counting every access to the "pirate site" as lost revenue when sometimes it's clearly not. She admitted accessing the "pirate site" to access content that she had already paid for accessing and she wasn't going to pay again. The technology measures put it place were blocking her access so she went around them.
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Let me pose an analogy in exchange for yours.
Suppose you buy a season ticket to see films in a particular cinema. One week you happen to be working away somewhere, so you sneak into a cinema in a different town and watch the film there. After all, you've paid to see the film, so there's nothing wrong in doing that, is there?
That's exactly what services like Netflix, or Amazon UK's video streaming services are: a season ticket to watch video in one particular place. The fact that you happen to be in a different place doesn't (IMHO) make it acceptable to pirate the material. You knew (or you should have known, at least) at the time you paid for the service that you wouldn't be able to watch it in a different country.