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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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When you purchase a ticket for a specific venue it is a different expectation then when you purchase a license to receive content via the world wide web. If you have an internet connection you expect to be able to access the content regardless of what country you are in. Personally if I travel two hours north, east or west I can access content via my Netflix account. If I travel two hours south I can't. I also can't purchase a Netflix account when I'm two hours south because I don't have a USA billing address. That is a market failure. You can apply geographical restrictions based on where I am OR where my billing address is. If you try to apply both then you really don't want to sell me a service.
The point of my analogy is that we as humans make our own decisions on right, wrong and necessary. We don't accept absolutes and we won't sit in an endless loop waiting for conditions to change.