Originally Posted by flagpole:
“You'd probably be better off asking them. How am I supposed to know?
Unblock US is just an American VPN. There is nothing illegal about it.
To be clear I'm not saying it's wrong. Or it should be illegal. But we need to be clear when we are taking about what is our isn't illegal.”
I just find it strange...
Copyright infringement (including sharing/uploading) is a civil offence, rather than a criminal offence, and an ever growing list of file sharing websites have been blocked at the ISP level (by a system that was originally intended to be just for blocking child porn) after rubber-stamp court orders were issued... TPB, Newzbin, etc. etc. Some have even been shut down.
Yet something like Unblock-US, which enables people to commit something that you claim is 100% a criminal offence, is happily able to continue operating openly and freely, without it being blocked or shutdown, and even continues to uses PayPal for subscriptions rather than Bitcoin or some porn-site credit card processor.
Surely something that is so clearly enabling people to commit something that you say is a criminal offence would be blocked, at the very least?
And Unblock-US is *not* "just an American VPN"... It's not any old VPN, that some people just so happen to use to bypass geoblocking on sites/services like Netflix.
The *sole* and *specific* purpose of Unblock-US is to enable people to bypass geoblocking on sites/services like Netflix... That is *all* it's for, openly...
... And I would bet that Netflix doesn't care, at all. I think its subscriber numbers would drop if people were not able to use Unblock-US or similar services to access content from non-home regions.