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They could just use the country of the credit card as an indicator for what movies to allow access to.

I believe the reason for not doing this is simply because streaming providers would like to keep that option open to avoid losing a customer.




There is also the very real part of life that exists in traveling. Especially if you live in Europe, you can find yourself in a different country with different media rights in less than an hour or two in a lot of cases. In those scenarios, it's important to not only manage the complexity of your own customers and the needs of the business as well.




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