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human
ELI5: How can netflix be unavailable in Italy due to infrastructure issues, but it works just fine with a VPN?
gpt
It's not a "netflix won't work in Italy" thing, it's a money thing. If you have broadband internet, netflix will work fine for you, regardless of where you are unless there's a giant firewall cutting you off ala china or something. 

But if not enough people have fast enough internet, it's not profitable. 

Some analyst looked at the number of people who have broadband access in italy, divided by the percentage of those people likely to buy netflix, and added together how much money they'd end up paying. Then they compared that total to how much it would cost to license all the movies and server expenses and so forth and decided that they wouldn't be making enough money to justify the cost until more people in italy have broadband and/or a desire for netflix.