Sony Pictures mad at Netflix’s failure to block overseas VPN users
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Sony pressed Netflix for increased “geofiltering” control over its customers to prevent the practice, including restricting payment methods for the service to ways that would allow screening for customers living outside countries where Netflix had contractual rights.
"This is in effect another form of piracy—one semi-sanctioned by Netflix, since they are getting paid by subscribers in territories where Netflix does not have the rights to sell our content."
Oh, now you are also a pirate when you pay for the content you want to watch, but live in a part of the world where the entertainment industry does not want to sell. The customers (yes, customers) already jump through hoops to get access and pay; but the entertainment industry still does not want them. At the same time the same industry is wondering why piracy does not go down. As said before, the main problem is the industry who offers the content in restrictive formats, with annoying ads, previews and warnings and refuses to change.