I'm sat (for various silly reasons) testing a UK origin live stream on a US Tor node exit, so yeah - but I still think a bit harsh to say "not an option" it would mean lots of the world couldn't get live streams, unless you're actually doing low latency streaming.
There is a very large delta between acceptable experience quality between what you mean and what Netflix means. We install hardware across most of the world because our bar is high, and I say this as someone who used to run eng for a low latency streaming product where the bar was also much lower.
I am not quite so sure our definition of acceptable is below Netflix (product certainly don't think so!), we also have quite a lot of info on people VPN'ing from north america to get Doctor Who for example. But yes it's an advantage that they're not things we even want to optimise for.
Ha, well product usually does have unrealistic goals (not a bad thing, aspiration is powerful). VOD is different from live content though, so the comparison of Doctor Who on VPN is different. Add on top of that your point about not optimizing for that: that is a users choice, not a product one.
I was certainly talking about Live broadcasting with the doctor who example, lots of the content has to be broadcast before it can be VOD, so the eager people need to watch the live stream - although we've mostly escaped that now.
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