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Netflix head wants to make the streaming giant’s content global to undo geographical licensing barriers

on Mar 31, 2015 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The head of Netflix has announced he plans to make the company’s content library global to combat piracy – which he partly blames on perpetrators’ lack of access to quality US shows.

Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings has opened up on Netflix subscribers who use VPNs to bluff their geographic location to access content not licensed in their region, during an interview with Gizmodo Australia.

Netflix has over 30 million customers in regions it has yet to officially launch in, with an estimated 20 million coming from China. These subscribers use VPNs and proxy servers to get around the restrictions.

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Source: The Drum