&gt;The people in other regions don&#x27;t have &quot;every right to copy it&quot;, they have &quot;every right to not consume it&quot;. Don&#x27;t like the rules? Don&#x27;t play. It&#x27;s their content, so they set the rules.<p>&gt;But nothing gives you the &quot;right&quot; to force your way into someone else&#x27;s party just because you weren&#x27;t invited, or didn&#x27;t like the ticket price.<p>Completely wrong on both counts.<p>If I&#x27;m not invited to someone else&#x27;s party, but I want to observe it without interfering with the partygoers, I have every right to invent a device which allows me to create an artificial wormhole which then allows me to remotely observe this party (see the Arthur C. Clarke book &quot;Light of Other Days&quot;).  The partygoers will have no idea I&#x27;m observing them and since they wouldn&#x27;t sell me a ticket anyway, they won&#x27;t see a difference in their revenues.<p>Similarly, if content holders don&#x27;t bother to offer their wares to me and then make it too difficult for me to acquire them with a workaround (subscription + VPN), then I have every right to download a copy.  As above, they have no idea that I&#x27;m watching their content, and since they didn&#x27;t offer it to me for sale anyway, they won&#x27;t see a difference in their revenues.<p>&gt;if you&#x27;re then going to condone what is essentially an unethical response yourself.<p>I&#x27;m not condoning an unethical response, I&#x27;m condoning an ethical one.  Ethics are in the eye of the beholder; for some people, it&#x27;s completely ethical to hack someone&#x27;s head off if they don&#x27;t follow the correct religion.  I choose to reject your system of ethics which grants all power to large, moneyed interests.