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Absolutely agree. I can't imagine that someone built this without considering how illegal (immoral?) it is.

How could this be considered immoral?

Because you are making money off of breaking someone else's terms of service?

It is quite easy to make the case that breaking bad rules is moral. In this case, ridiculous region-based restrictions on copyrighted material are the bad rules being broken. These are paying customers, after all. Why should it matter where they watch what they paid to watch?

> Why should it matter where they watch what they paid to watch?

Because they are watching things they didn't pay to watch.

If, for example, HBO locks up rights to broadcasting a movie in US, Netflix might be able to get the rights in the UK. Watching it in the US via a UK Netflix proxy is (theoretically at least) depriving HBO of revenue, since they paid for exclusivity.

That's really HBO's problem, then, for thinking they can continue to forcibly segregate the world. I'll note that I don't use this service or any like it, but I do think that people need to keep pushing against the insane excesses of copyright through the political process, through education, and through civil disobedience.

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