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A show I had one episode left of went off Netflix on 1/1. I tried to find it EVERYWHERE, I even downloaded iTunes on my PC. “Not available in your region” left right and center. I luckily found a torrent and it was legitimately the only way I could find the content beyond buying DVDs on eBay.

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Perfectly fits this 10 years old comic classic from Matthew Inman:

https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

I was living in Ireland for a little while and wanted to watch Game of Thrones. At the time, piracy was literally the only possible way to watch it; there was no legal avenue whatsoever (including purchasing cable from HBO, etc) that included it.

I still haven't seen Game of Thrones.

That’s crazy. Would a VPN work? I think it would have for me, since my show was available in the UK, but I was not really into buying and setting up a VPN when my wife wanted me to just find the damn show.

VPNs and cloud services' IP ranges are mostly blocked nowadays (by AS number and so on). You can setup your own wireguard vpn running e.g. on a Raspberry Pi on someones cable Internet, of course.

that comic is 10 years old? damn im getting old. lol. i remember that one. hilarious then , hilarious now.

I wasnt sure either until I looked it up. There's a funny ad on the torrent site in the comic about winning an iPad 3, which was sold in 2012 :-)

There's probably money in helping these companies realize when they have left large portions of their content unlicensed in entire geographic regions.

It is. They call them VPNs and apparently they tell us it’s for “privacy”.

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