Why not, when you are abroad it is kinda the only way you can watch many of the content that is not available in other countries. Even subtitles are not available in English in some countries like Sweden.

Because Netflix blocks VPNs since a few months. It's really hard to find a vpn that works with netflix. Even setting up your own won't work, most ip ranges that are used by data centres are blocked by default.

He said he pays for Netflix, but torrents on a VPN.

That's a bingo!

Heck if your using a tunnel broker for ipv6, it thinks your using a vpn, sigh.

That sort of makes sense, given that is also punching through the geoblock.

I understand that, but I'm using an endpoint in the same physical area my actual internet connection is (NoVA).

I don't access Netflix, kind of the whole point :)

Whhen I do use Netflix it's through my PS4.