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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do movie studios care if I pay for Netflix and use a VPN to change my location? They are getting paid either way.
gpt
The problem is that when Sony released a movie in Australia, it formed a contract with a studio in Australia to do that. So that studio owns the right to distribute that movie in Australia. If you use Netflix and a VPN to access the U.S. version of Netflix, you're cutting out the Australian company that actually owns the right to distribute that movie in Australia.

It'd be like if you paid for the right to be the exclusive seller of BMWs in Colorado, but people were buying BMWs in Colorado directly from Germany. You're getting screwed even if BMW isn't.