Some websites are available only from US. Or some streaming service allows certain content only from US.
Why does such geo restriction exist? What is the benefit for the company to implement this?
Some websites are available only from US. Or some streaming service allows certain content only from US.
Why does such geo restriction exist? What is the benefit for the company to implement this?
Very often the copyright holders of the content have different distribution arrangements for different countries/regions. If you can get the content from some other region, then your local content provider isn’t getting whatever fees/and revenue they would get from you.
The fact that these agreements continue to exist (often pushing people in different regions to piracy of various content) proves that piracy is not the problem the industry tries to claim.
Clearly, continuing to make these antiquated agreements that are logically nonsensical in the age of global streaming services, and which restrict paying, play by the rules customers ONLY, must be evidence that they continue to be more profitable than removing the piracy motive by abandoning such agreements.
The are certainly not in any way whatsoever impacting what is available by alternative means, and they are pushing people to look for such means.