Zero severs in Russia, China, Turkey, India..? Over 2 bn. people left out of the market? I know not all have network access, but still. Not Russia or India at least?
Russia is not a friendly country to do business in
China is closed off behind the Great Firewall and probably already has a local netflix clone
India, I do not know, could be cost issues?
As a tech sector APAC manager I have been instructed more than once not to visit. Not for any internal conference, and definitely not for any customer contact, and to take verifiable steps to avoid making "management decisions" if visiting for a holiday. Typical quote, "You do not want to be the guy that triggered tax obligations for us in India".
IANAL but I believe it's due to the broad framing of India's "place of effective management" rules.
This sort of thing ends up being mostly to Singapore's benefit, transnationals won't place their APAC region office in India as a result.
You're looking at taxation for resident income, and source income. Sure, a local entity should pay tax at source, in your case India, but unless you're sitting in India and taking global decisions or decisions creating significant global impact, no need to pay on resident income.
IANAL but this is my experience interacting mainly with large corporate. You might want to ask legal in your company or have an international independent auditor advise; don't want the wool may well being pulled over your eyes. And that would be bad, as it would be a dereliction of trust. And I've seen that a lot when, non India specific, but offshored locations try to build ill-founded silos.
In Germany Netflix is "meh" but the only half-decent alternative is Amazon Prime, which isn't better at all.
Subtitles are a deal-breaker for me, so I've been sourcing my movies from a local brick-and-stone DVD rental after Netflix clamped down on the VPN and DNS workarounds. Surprisingly the series offering in Netflix is quite OK in this regard though.
Not these "pirates" guys. They seem to have all of the good stuff and some more, so they outcompete Netflix outside the US quite well.
Is Netflix blocking VPNs? Yes. They didn't use to, but they started doing it around a month or so ago. Some VPNs could route around it, some couldn't.
Alternative answer: using a VPN is against Netflix' TOS, so it's not really different from regular piracy. You could argue that you pay for convenience, but you could also argue that if you are going to open yourself to a lawsuit, you might not want to do it with your personal credit card.