I’ve been using a VPN in order to mask my IP address and so that I can stream content from Germany-located content providers such as Videoload.de and Maxdome.de and Netflix Germany from here in Littleton, Colorado in the United States. I’ve been using a VPN for more than a decade for this purpose, though I have not always used ExpressVPN.
I’ve been doing this to circumvent the anachronistic and MADDENING cultural content borders that block access to content based on one’s geophysical location in the world, which, online, is marked by one’s IP address, or the string of numbers that identifies your computer, phone, tablet etc. so that information you are pulling off the internet can be directed to your device. And I’ve been trying to circumvent these content borders on the Internet so that I can use cultural content — primarily American-produced content that is dubbed into German — to help raise my two daughters bilingually in German and English.
It has not always worked. Cultural content distributors such as Netflix, Amazon, Google, Videoload.De and Maxdome.De are locked in a constant battle with VPN producers with each trying to outdo the other. Unfortunately for me, cultural content distributors mostly seem to win this battle: They write code that allows them to identify if someone is coming to their content from outside of the limited national boundaries in which they are permitted to distribute content to due to MADDENING copyright laws that require cultural distributors to pay more for the rights to distribute content if they want to distribute that content to more viewers in more places around the world.
ARGGGHHHH!!!! It is all so damn MADDENING!!!!
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