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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. We, the one who pay our hard earned cash ... by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... always got short changed

    Country by country, region by region, media by media, they will find ways to fleece us

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  2. Free Trade... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So why does "Free Trade" not apply to tax payers / voters ?

    I can buy Books, DVDs, CDs, in fact any physical item and ship it to New Zealand. Why can I not do the same with Digital Media (which is what DVDs etc are anyway).

  3. Re:Get half a dozen boxes all over the world by black3d · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is absolutely no content that is region-locked to New Zealand that is worth watching, that isn't already available elsewhere.

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