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That is also true for Netflix and they do care. Indian monthty subscription is much lower priced and starts ~2$ than U.S. that costs like $20[1] Geolocation is
by manquer 4y ago
That is also true for Netflix and they do care. Indian monthty subscription is much lower priced and starts ~2$ than U.S. that costs like $20[1]
Geolocation is largely a feature in products and in licensing because there is big purchasing power difference between rich and poor countries.
Netflix has been more tolerant in the past of region bypass than others for the same reason they didn't crackdown on password sharing but won't be in the future.
[1] The actual prices we pay might vary in both countries depending on promotion and tie ups etc, but these are list prices of which those components would be applied.
- Anunayj 4y agoWould getting the cheaper subscription not require the user to have a valid mode of payment that can be attributed to India? I do not understand how credit cards work, but I suppose the company probably can atleast obtain the card holder's country?
- manquer 4y agoThey could also easily block known VPN IP ranges (they don't). Netflix generally is not (yet) user unfriendly. There are myriad ways of buying a subscription, including gift cards, third party tie-ups etc, it won't be easy to implement a fool proof solution which works for all of them, especially without degrading user experience. It is more likely that problem is not big enough for Netflix that it wasn't worth investing that kind of effort. Similar to how they are handling password sharing now, it is perhaps possible they will look into this in the future as margins tighten and pressure increases as they keep loosing subscribers to competition.