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by IMTDb 3827 days ago
Or you can torrent it quite easily and don't pay a dime. The point is : if I have to do illegal stuff (getting around geoip is against TOS) and start installing software, search on the internet for a tutorial to learn how to watch my stuff, I might as well look for "House of cards torrent", it's faster and cheaper. I can pirate any music I want, yet I pay Apple Music $10/month to get it because it's easy, the UI is nice, everything is in there, and the service "just works". If I have to install a VPN, to change my IP so that the service I am paying will let me watch a show they are producing, something is broken. Period. Fix it or I'll pirate it.
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You are still paying the content creators if you bypass the geoblock and pay the monthly subscription fee. And that fee is not at all onerous.

In Australia, all the streaming providers have the problems of not being able to show all content. There is stuff in Australia that we can't watch at all. Bypassing Geoblocks makes me a citizen of the entire world, which I gladly pay for.