Region-Locked Content Drives UK Users To Try a VPN (itproportal.com)

An anonymous reader writes: A new report has revealed that VPN usage in the UK has increased with almost one in six people now using a VPN alongside their internet connection. According to YouGov's 'Incognito Individual' report, 16 percent of British adults have used either a VPN or proxy server. This up-tick in users trying a VPN was often the direct result of trying access region-locked content or websites. Of those surveyed, 48 percent of respondents admitted to using a VPN or a proxy to access content they would otherwise be unable to view. VPNs are often used by security conscious individuals who are concerned with their privacy and not having their browsing data logged. YouGov's report found that 44 percent of VPN users utilised such a service for better security and that 37 percent did so for improved privacy.

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[pele]

Businesses that rely on geo locks? Those businesses should die off.
And secondly, there were no such things as geo locks on the internet 10, 20 or 30 years ago so why should there be now? As a matter of fact there were no businesses that rely on geo locks at all. What's this crap about?

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Well, I live in Europe (Poland) and while I do perceive German/French governments as "leftist", I enjoy much more freedom than those who live in USA.
Movies here do not have to conform to puritan tastes of east-coast zealots (if there is one thing forbidden -> fascist/nazi symbols; that's one thing you can have in USA that you can't in Poland (unless it is put in certain context... which is debatable; but hey, it's easy to understand that we don't want PR of a group that tried to eredicate our entire nation));
We do not have to deal with software patents (yet...);
We have laws that try to protect me from too much coroporate greed (e.g. there are forbidden clasuses, a working anti-monopoli body, etc.), so in my backwater backward poor country with 1/nth of your GDP per capita I have better telephony and internet plans (because government regulation (unlike mythical "free market") of telecoms enables competition).