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New Zealand ISP Offers Anti-Geo-Blocking Service
Australians not only pay significantly more for US content than US customers, a significant amount of content simply isn't available -- with companies like Netflix still unable to secure licensing rights for TV and film from disruption-phobic Australian broadcasters. To get around this "geo-blocking," many Australians subscribe to VPNs as to hide their locations. Now one New Zealand ISP says they're making this easier by, for the first time, offering to geoblock all broadband subscribers by default. Australian consumer advocacy group Choice is applauding the move by New Zealand ISP Slingshot to enable a "global mode" for all subscribers allowing them to access oversease content without having to configure proxies or VPNs.

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Mike
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Mike

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Ah yes the VPN game

Where US users get a UK proxy and the UK users get a US proxy to access local content.