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Old 07-14-2014, 04:25 AM   #154
EowynCarter
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
That's exactly the problem.
Copyright law need to be adapted to that reality called internet.
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