This is Netflix more aggressively enforcing its contractual content restrictions. Not particularly shocking, and calling it a "bug" is clearly out of anger.
But that being said... the bit about how this will simply encourage piracy is spot on. Perhaps Netflix themselves have no choice but to do this if they want to keep their contracts, but as usual content industries are shooting themselves in the foot by thinking that people on the wrong side of a national border will just politely give up rather than find another way to get the thing they want.
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This is Netflix more aggressively enforcing its contractual content restrictions. Not particularly shocking, and calling it a "bug" is clearly out of anger.
But that being said... the bit about how this will simply encourage piracy is spot on. Perhaps Netflix themselves have no choice but to do this if they want to keep their contracts, but as usual content industries are shooting themselves in the foot by thinking that people on the wrong side of a national border will just politely give up rather than find another way to get the thing they want.