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New Zealand ISP Offers "Global Mode" So Users Can Circumvent Geo-Restrictions

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-price-for-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many content sites restrict access from different markets or have variable pricing for downloads in different markets. New Zealand-based ISP Slingshot is now offering a 'global mode' that lets customers hide their location. This means they can access overseas online services that would normally be restricted to specific markets."

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  1. Region encoding is illegal in NZ by Danious · · Score: 5, Informative

    In NZ the Commerce Commission has long held that region encoding is illegal under NZ law. What that effectively means is that when you buy a DVD player in NZ it is already chipped by the manufacturer to play any region, and you can buy DVD's from any region and play them completely legally. Basically it's a necessary move by a country so small that we have to ride the coat-tails of other countries for content distribution.