In my part of the world, I pay for netflix (and deezer and apple streaming music) but we&#x27;re locked out of many good shows because of artificially created region restrictions with no technical merit or justification other than the fact that the movie industry wants to squeeze blood from every region in the world separately, at the very least.<p>Even with our local cable companies inking deals with HBO and other big names, we still don&#x27;t get the latest shows or episodes even through their local streaming video on demand services, we have to wait months or sometimes years before it&#x27;s legally available in our region... and I live in a country where people don&#x27;t blink while splurging on the latest iPhone 6+ or Macbook pro or a new playstation 4.<p>There&#x27;s absolutely no logical reason that customers willing to pay for these shows should be locked out &quot;just because&quot;, and this is what drives people to alternate tools like popcorn time.<p>The music industry had their first taste with napster in the early &#x27;00s, and they fought the ideas tooth and nail instead of realizing it could be mutually beneficial to embrace this technology and bring music to more people faster. Now the movie industry is making the same mistakes and are facing the same result.