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by gwicks56 1705 days ago
Travel. Content is licensed to geographic areas, not people/billing areas.
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Which is utterly, brainlessly, grubbily stupid as a facet of modern digital content streaming. Aside from being absurd in principle, will large numbers of people suddenly migrate to another country so they can use its Netflix selection? Probably not.
I understand the legal _why_, but legal stuff is maleable, much like most things that people have created.
> but legal stuff is maleable

... but I don't think Disney is.

(And yes, Disney+ is technically only available outside of Asia - while some services inside of Asia is branded Disney+, they are not even the same system at all!)