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by arbre 3640 days ago
How about VPN + regular HBO?
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It will work but, it’s a violation of terms and condition of HBO now. So it's not legal :(

> (a) You must reside within the fifty states of the United States of America (“U.S.”), the District of Columbia, and certain US territories (collectively, the “Service Area”) and have reached the age of 18, or the age of legal majority in your state or territory of residence;

Source: https://www.hbonow.com/terms

Against the terms of service != not legal. I would argue that if you paid for the content no one in Germany could charge you with anything.
Are your sure ?

Here is an example for California : https://www.eff.org/fr/deeplinks/2010/07/court-violating-ter... > the court also found that bypassing technical or code-based barriers intended to limit access to or uses of a website may violate California's computer crime law.

If you have more informations about that, I am interested

In US, sure. But agreements like EULA have been proven completely meaningless courts in different EU countries - you can break them all you like, it's definitely not illegal. The company might stop doing business with you, but you absolutely haven't broken any laws.
It says "legally" right there in the title. I'm assuming this also takes into account EULAs and the like, that would forbid consuming the content while situated in another country.
Can be a problem if you don't have a US billing address or if your VPN gets banned, depending on exactly which service's DRM/geo-locking you're trying to circumvent.
It's pretty trivial for providers to blacklist known proxy/VPN endpoints. Netflix started doing it this year. Does HBO not enforce it?
That's not legal and violates their license, so if you're okay with that then just pirating the show would be simpler.
It's ironically becoming almost more complicated to get legal content than just pirating it.
That still counts as piracy. Using a satelite card from another country also counts as piracy.
Good point! I think that HBO is trying to prevent this kind of practice though.