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Why can't they do region locking based on the billing address of the credit/debit card used to pay for their services?

• gwicks56 5y ago
  Travel. Content is licensed to geographic areas, not people/billing areas.
  • helloworld11 5y ago
    Which is utterly, brainlessly, grubbily stupid as a facet of modern digital content streaming. Aside from being absurd in principle, will large numbers of people suddenly migrate to another country so they can use its Netflix selection? Probably not.
  • eptcyka 5y ago
    I understand the legal _why_, but legal stuff is maleable, much like most things that people have created.
    • zinekeller 5y ago
      > but legal stuff is maleable ... but I don't think Disney is. (And yes, Disney+ is technically only available outside of Asia - while some services inside of Asia is branded Disney+, they are not even the same system at all!)