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Well, I guess my point was that there are a lot of physical goods that US companies may not sell to these countries due to sanctions - political reasons. Certainly folks circumvent these measures. People also circumvent regional restrictions on Internet services with VPNs. I'm sure this company doesn't want to smuggle its service in. I have no idea why the service isn't available in some specific area, but I suspect "not being recognized by the EU" isn't the primary reason. Though that may make implementation more difficult in an area.

My impression has been that companies have prevented each other from distributing to some of those rich and democratic small countries. Through region specific licensing of their media they've limited distribution. I don't think those are political measures, although certainly in other cases companies have used political means to achieve their goals.

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