For a bit of perspective. The Chromecast used to be an absolute pain to get working. When they launched, they specifically locked it down to be US only, by forc

For a bit of perspective. The Chromecast used to be an absolute pain to get working. When they launched, they specifically locked it down to be US only, by forcing it to Google's DNS and do a check against that Enterprising hackers quickly found that you could simply blackhole Google DNS and it'd use your local one, which would remove the baked in "hardware geoblocking" as it was termed