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by judauphant 3641 days ago
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

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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.