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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
That's exactly the problem.
Copyright law need to be adapted to that reality called internet.
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exactly, what "region" is a guy in, on a cruise ship or an aeroplane who is streaming a video. Its it really reasonable for the movie to cut out as the transport passed over some arbitrary line on a map ?
A world in which your "location" is defined by what DNS server you happen to be using is never going to manage geo-restrictions well - Neither Netflix or Hollywood know where "I " am, or where my tablet is. They only know where some of my delivery components are registered / located . The model has to adapt. I can already carry a DVD around the world, & play it on a PC anywhere I take it, so legal streaming needs to evolve to be equally flexible if it's ever to be "better" than piracy.
Google search , on my Kindle Fire HDX, thinks I'm in Ireland , because of how Amazon built their Silk browser system !, so its runs all the searches through google.ie & not google.co.uk.
Amazon has a complete rats nest of allowing some purchases and service based on where you live ( i.e. address / card on file) but bases others on where you happen to be at the time. So you see floods of complaints like "I bought amazon coins but I can't spend them until I take my tablet back to country X "
If I took my Kindle to USA I'd expect either 1. UK prime video to still work on the tablet , or 2. USA prime video to kick in instead for the duration of the trip. I suspect I'd get neither!
An email or messaging service that tried to say - sorry - you cant read / write any mail until you return to your home country would be doomed. so why should video streaming be any different.