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New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support

Posted by samzenpus on from the go-ahead-and-watch dept.

angry tapir writes: A number of New Zealand Internet service providers will no longer offer their customers support for circumventing regional restrictions on accessing online video content. Major New Zealand media companies SKY, TVNZ, Lightbox and MediaWorks filed a lawsuit in April, arguing that skirting geoblocks violates the distribution rights of its media clients for the New Zealand market. The parties have reached an out-of-court settlement.

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  1. Get half a dozen boxes all over the world by behrooz0az · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been doing it for 8+ years now, takes some time to set up all the applications(transmission, youtube-dl, proxychains, rsync, ...), but it's very well worth the time.
    One in Germany, one in UK, one in LA, one in SEA. You can have access to every damn file on the Internet.

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