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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm suggesting that just because someone says something is so, doesn't make it so. I can sell you a car and bury a clause in the contract saying that you can't drive it faster than then posted speed limit. That doesn't make that clause legally enforceable. Nor does it mean that you are breaking the law, even if the clause is enforceable. Isn't that your gold standard for if something is right or wrong? If it's legal where you happen to be at the moment?
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I'd be very surprised if geographical restrictions on streaming services were not legally enforcible, because the supplier has only bought the right to distribute the material in a given region. Netflix in the US have only bought the rights to stream material to customers in the US. Amazon Instant Video in the UK have only bought the rights to stream in the UK. Accessing the material outside the region for which it's been licensed would, I'm pretty sure, constitute copyright infringement.