We had a related issue in Canada where the president of Bell Media claimed that Canadians that were using VPN to pay for access to Netflix in the USA were stealing.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/s...-is-not-theft/
It amazes me that companies think they own who I can buy media from and it's stealing if I don't buy from them. Sorry I didn't sell them my consumer choice. I haven't seen anything in the copyright laws that states that content providers own the rights to me as a consumer and they can sell these rights.