Netflix has stepped up its efforts to ban VPN and proxy users from bypassing geographical restrictions. The streaming service is now blocking residential IP addresses too, since some unblocking tools use these to bypass restrictions. This isn't without collateral damage as many regular Internet user...
I use a VPN with Netflix to watch shows in another language so I can get accurate subtitles, because they don't exist on English Netflix and they are hard to find elsewhere. Even with piracy these things are generally harder to find.
Can't even make good use of modern global communications because of capitalism.