I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s true.<p>While I&#x27;m not a fan of the entitlement-culture that&#x27;s a massive feature of large parts of the popular internet, there&#x27;s more to this than simple entitlement.  Demanding content for free is entitlement.
Being happy to pay for content, but being denied access based on your geographical location isn&#x27;t entitlement - at least to me, and I think to a lot of people both on and off the internet.<p>What content owners have seemed to fail to grasp, repeatedly, is that governments operate at least partly by consent[0].  No matter how successful you are at convincing the government of a country to pass the law you want, if it&#x27;s a law that&#x27;s very difficult to enforce and is generally perceived as being unfair&#x2F;unreasonable, it will often get ignored entirely.<p>The problem in this particular case is that in much of the world, the content owners have taken an incredibly aggressive stance, making it extremely difficult or impossible to access lots of content legally.  This is often regarded as unfair by the general population of that country - &quot;Why can&#x27;t I listen to this song&#x2F;watch this film?  It&#x27;s been available in &lt;other country&gt; for months&#x2F;years&quot;.<p>From a legal standpoint, the content owner is within their rights to say: &quot;Actually, I don&#x27;t really care about country Y.  I&#x27;ll not bother releasing my content there.&quot;[1]  However, in practice, it&#x27;s unlikely their wishes will be respected.<p>No matter how you or they might feel about it, in the real world, content owners have two options:<p>1) Make it legally available under reasonable terms.<p>2) Accept that it will be available illegally.<p>There is no third option.<p>0: Yes, there&#x27;s debate as to what degree this applies, but for the purposes of my point that shouldn&#x27;t matter, as long as you accept that there&#x27;s at least some degree of consent required.<p>1: In theoretical discussions of this topic, it&#x27;s often presumed that market forces will counteract this, and incentivise the owner to make their content widely available in most markets - this is demonstrably not the case in practice however.