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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.
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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Businesses that rely on geo locks? Those businesses SHOULD die off.
I'm afraid those businesses haven't read RFC 2119.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
What the fuck are you talking about? Can you watch Tom&Jerry cartoons with the infamous blackface running gag (Tom looks into a teapot, Jerry blows up a cracker in it, boom, Tom looks like a N-word parody) on TV? I can. Show me one network in the US that would DARE to even come close to showing something like that.
When was the last time you saw a nipple on US TV? And I'm not talking about "nipplegate", the big scandal that was more considered a scandal for being a scandal over here. Fuck, our ads have more naked skin than your pay-per-view-only-after-watershed movies.
And don't start me on the goddamn bleeping in your TV shows.
IF you want to look for censorship, you don't really need to look across the pond, yank.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"... and routes around it." - John Gilmore
In this case "The Net" is a system including, not just the equipment, protocols, and administrators, but also the users. But it's another case where John's aphorism was dead-on.
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Most users use a VPN in the UK to access the porn, that the ISPs must block by law.
It's a bit of a stretch to call the region-blocking.
I genuinely laughed out loud at that one. The "leftist government of the UK"?! Our current government is pretty far right of centre. In fact it's got more right of centre in the past few years as it tries to take over the position of far right parties like UKIP.
And it is that hard right government that has been introducing more and more censorship, often in the name of protecting people from bad thoughts like porn and "extremist" writing. It also strongly supports copyright enforcement and consumer abuse, which is what leads to this kind of thing.
The centre and left parties in the UK are actually promising to roll a lot of that stuff back.
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Say there were a country whose law stated that anybody reproducing, importing, or exhibiting a copy of a film adaptation of Peter Pan in that country must pay a tax, and this tax made it unprofitable to offer the film for all-you-can-watch streaming. Would that mean the law is shit? Or would it mean that all-you-can-watch streaming in general is shit?
It turns out that there is such a country, by the name of Great Britain. Its Copyrights, Designs, and Patents Act recognizes a right to a royalty payable to the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSH) for derivatives of the stage play Peter and Wendy, as if the play were subject to a perpetual copyright with a compulsory licence.
And you're licking every other butthole that butthole has licked. Or something.
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Since when I VPN myself to a site within the U.S. Netflix freaks the hell out. So too Hulu.
If some people get use the whole world to lower their costs via cheap labor, then the surely, people can use the whole world to find the cheapest/easiest to access content. It's 20-fucking-17. Play globally or gtfo.
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As a Brit who spends most of his work week abroad, its not surprising.
We make some of the most amazing TV, however because of that, the rights holders want to hold on to distribution as long as possible. When I'm away with work, it never stops amazing me just how much more of the content I'd want to watch at home is available on Netflix, Amazon et. al. abroad. Not just the shows available, but the latest series of those shows, often over a year before you can watch them in the UK on the same services.
Maybe a lot of this (especially with movies) is to do with how much BSkyB has a hold over the UK TV industry, although ironically that means my biggest VPN usage is from abroad to watch Sky Go abroad!
You are a complete lunatic. The UK is under the same barrage of bullshit as the US, in that people see that rubbish, believe it, and back the chinless elitist wankers in elections to save them from the strawman.
...while everyone else is breaking out. :)
Because, living in exile, I miss the BBC.
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