Access Region-Restricted Content From Anywhere
“Unavailable due to regional restrictions” means the app or site has decided, from where your internet connection appears to be, that the content is not licensed or allowed in your location. The same app can show different content in two countries, and your account usually has nothing to do with it.
Speedify is an app that changes that apparent location by routing your traffic through a server in the country you choose, and combines your internet connections so the content streams smoothly once it loads.
With Speedify, your internet stays on when one connection fails.
This article covers how regional restrictions work, why apps and content providers use them, and three steps to get around them with Speedify.
How Region Restrictions Work
Region restrictions typically work by determining your physical location based upon your IP address. The restrictions are usually put in place by the developers of different apps and websites.
Once the app knows your physical location, a filter is applied to the content you can access. Companies such as YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu use region restrictions.
While region restrictions are usually based on the country you are in, sometimes content is restricted inside of the same country. For example, many sports games may not be accessible to you in certain regions of the United States and Canada.
By using your IP address to determine your location, region restrictions can be used to block an area as small as a neighborhood or as big as a country.
Why Some Apps and Content Providers Have Region Restrictions
The four main reasons for region restrictions are:
- Compliance with local laws
- Licensing issues
- Protect marketing partners
- Internet censorship
Countries set different standards for what content can be shown. To do business in those countries, apps and websites use regional restrictions to keep users from accessing content the government has deemed inappropriate.
Some types of movies and TV shows are only licensed to be shown in certain countries by certain providers. In order to keep from being in breach of contract with the distributors, apps will use a region restriction to block users in certain locations from accessing the content.
Sometimes a content provider, usually a sports league, will use region restrictions to block people from accessing a certain broadcast or content because one of their local partners is showing the content. For example, a sports league may block out a game from their app in the city where the game is being played so a local TV channel doesn’t have to compete with the app. The app may also block the game from being shown to encourage people to buy tickets if the game isn’t sold out.
Using Speedify to Bypass Region Restrictions in Three Easy Steps
Speedify can usually get around region restrictions and Internet censorship. Here are the steps:
Step One: Download Speedify by clicking here and install it.
Step Two: Open Speedify, sign in or create an account, and pick a server in a country where the content is available (paid plans include servers in more than 50 locations).
Step Three: Open the content that is restricted to you.
Speedify uses advanced VPN encryption to mask your IP address and secure your data without slowing down your Internet connection.
Unlike other VPNs, Speedify can use multiple connections at once, opening multiple secure VPN tunnels through each of those, which gives you a faster and more stable encrypted connection.
To set that up on your own devices, see how to combine two or more Internet connections into one fast pipe.
Bypass region restrictions on your apps wherever you are. Get started with Speedify now.
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