As an Australian in a modern changing world I am caught in an annoying situation of grey law area vs freedom of choice.
Here in Australia we have long been exploited because of our geographical remoteness needing shipping costs and lack of competition to more than double the costs of the goods we use compared to what most other countries pay. In short Aussies are used to being ripped off.
Since local TV began here certain businesses have grown very wealthy buying the rights to broadcast media they choose while giving us less variety than the rest of the world.
Recently it has been in our news how to bypass the systems in place on the net designed to keep us out to protect the financial interests of those exploiting us by keeping competition minimal so we can access Netflix.
It doesn't break any of our countries laws to get a fair go and bypass these things into an open marketplace.
The catch is you have to put a fake or us zip code into Netflix to join up (probably breaching TOS) and use a paid routing service to bypass the geo-blocking that keeps the service out. Netflix TOS is a bit farcical because it accepts Aussie credit cards with ease so they don't seem to mind! US iTunes bans overseas credit cards by comparison.
Right or wrong as a Christian I should feel guilty for thinking about paying for a great service in an open marketplace or should I let my conscience keep me at the mercy of those who decide for their profit what I watch?
For a long time it was illegal to make a backup copy of a music cd too here and I don't think any Christian I know concerned themselves with breaking the cd TOS either.
What do you think, have times changed and we vote with our dollars to force change in the marketplace in Australia
Here in Australia we have long been exploited because of our geographical remoteness needing shipping costs and lack of competition to more than double the costs of the goods we use compared to what most other countries pay. In short Aussies are used to being ripped off.
Since local TV began here certain businesses have grown very wealthy buying the rights to broadcast media they choose while giving us less variety than the rest of the world.
Recently it has been in our news how to bypass the systems in place on the net designed to keep us out to protect the financial interests of those exploiting us by keeping competition minimal so we can access Netflix.
It doesn't break any of our countries laws to get a fair go and bypass these things into an open marketplace.
The catch is you have to put a fake or us zip code into Netflix to join up (probably breaching TOS) and use a paid routing service to bypass the geo-blocking that keeps the service out. Netflix TOS is a bit farcical because it accepts Aussie credit cards with ease so they don't seem to mind! US iTunes bans overseas credit cards by comparison.
Right or wrong as a Christian I should feel guilty for thinking about paying for a great service in an open marketplace or should I let my conscience keep me at the mercy of those who decide for their profit what I watch?
For a long time it was illegal to make a backup copy of a music cd too here and I don't think any Christian I know concerned themselves with breaking the cd TOS either.
What do you think, have times changed and we vote with our dollars to force change in the marketplace in Australia
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