Yeah but some of these services still offer something that official alternatives do not.
I used to support an apartment building with a lot of residents from India. They all had IPTV boxes with some pirate channel for accessing some in demand cricket comp, and the support requests would all coincide with the streams. And in general they got lots of other local content outside the region locking. Mostly keeping up with India. They got the content for free in india, but paid a small fee to access it remotely, not caring who provided it. They all seemed to believe there was no financially reasonable alternative way to access the content and we never really bothered them about it as its not the carriers job to police IMHO.
Likewise I see tons of yanks complaining about Disney+ not carrying Alien Romulus, when outside of the US its on the app. All self imposed considering Disney owns a large amount of Hulu but is beefing with the remaining shareholders IIRC.
Plainly nonsense region locking seems to be driving piracy. And if someones making 250 million per month circumventing it then it sort of implies the solution doesnt it?
>Likewise I see tons of yanks complaining about Disney+ not carrying Alien Romulus, when outside of the US its on the app. All self imposed considering Disney owns a large amount of Hulu but is beefing with the remaining shareholders IIRC.
That's odd. Disney+ (with ads) is $10/mo on its own. $11/mo for the bundle of D+/Hulu (with ads). Alien: Romulus is on Hulu right now.
I used to support an apartment building with a lot of residents from India. They all had IPTV boxes with some pirate channel for accessing some in demand cricket comp, and the support requests would all coincide with the streams. And in general they got lots of other local content outside the region locking. Mostly keeping up with India. They got the content for free in india, but paid a small fee to access it remotely, not caring who provided it. They all seemed to believe there was no financially reasonable alternative way to access the content and we never really bothered them about it as its not the carriers job to police IMHO.
Likewise I see tons of yanks complaining about Disney+ not carrying Alien Romulus, when outside of the US its on the app. All self imposed considering Disney owns a large amount of Hulu but is beefing with the remaining shareholders IIRC.
Plainly nonsense region locking seems to be driving piracy. And if someones making 250 million per month circumventing it then it sort of implies the solution doesnt it?