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I live in Canada

/facepalm

I go to Australia fairly often and know quite a few people who live between the US and AU. Finally frustrated beyond the breaking point by iTunes and Netflix goe-location nonsense, I got one of these small servers(1).

I loaded openvpn(2) server on it and put tunnelblick(3) on all our macs (and a few openwrt type devices)

Cost of a tiny dedicated Atom server payable with paypal: $39/month. Having an IP address that that says I'm in New Jersey wherever in the world I happen to be: priceless.

1. http://www.interserver.net/custom-managed-dedicated-servers....

2. http://openvpn.net/

3. http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/

For what it's worth, you're paying too much; if you don't need much CPU or RAM, just a network connection, you'd be fine with a cheap VPS or EC2.

I also live in Canada --- and would love to re-watch TNG.

The best-looking option right now (that doesn't entail copyright infringement) is Zip.ca, which has a bigger selection than Netflix Canada (at least for DVDs-by-mail), and has all the seasons of TNG on DVD. Zip.ca starts at $11/month.

http://www.zip.ca/DVD/Browse.aspx/1/s/Next$20Generation

Germany - same here.

Same (Japan). I wonder how much this sort of nonsense (i.e. region-specific releases) increases piracy in the places that don't benefit. It's not like it's any harder to hop on a torrent in one place than anywhere else, and seeing one region get the release while you're left out in the cold pretty much ruins any moral objection you may have had to just grabbing it.

Anyway, I hope it's a lot (the increase in piracy, I mean).

It is not just this, each time they do something stupid a few people learn how to download and hide their tracks and it is not like they are going to go and buy it if it later becomes available legally.

Heck, in Denmark you can't buy a single video on iTunes, not even old out of date stuff or even public domain videos.

I wonder how many people learned to pirate based on that? At the very least they are loosing revenue (especially since this stuff isn't something people will actually find in a normal store) most likely they are training future pirates.

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