On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:22 AM Blake Hudson <bl...@ispn.net> wrote: > t...@pelican.org wrote on 11/21/2019 4:32 AM: > > Or am I woefully naive, and it's actually trivial for a non-US resident to come up with a US credit card and billing address to pay for the service?
1. Buy a prepaid debit card. 2. Rent a mailbox at Mailboxes Etc. or a similar company. 3. Log in to the prepaid card's web site and enter the address of your rented mailbox as the billing address. > Tim, like you, I've been baffled by this choice as well. Why streaming > video providers continue to choose a costly and convoluted path when a > less convoluted and cheaper path exists to reach (seemingly) the same > destination I will never know. Again, streaming video providers did not make this choice. Content owners did, and made its enforcement a contractual requirement for leasing that content to the streaming video providers. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
