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		otabdeveloper4 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules ki... Streaming services don't have any incentive to ban traffic from non-residential addresses right now. But they might with enough legislative pressure.

xp84 4 months ago [–]

True! They only need to make a show of trying their best, in order to appease grumpy copyright holders. I don’t think I’d pay for Netflix anymore if I could only watch the pathetic US catalog, and there are surely many others like me. And Netflix knows that.

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