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Answering the question, “How can consumers benefit from changing their ISP location using a VPN?”,” Professor Justin Cappos said: “It's possible to access content that would otherwise be region-locked. When you use a VPN, then you appear to be located at the location of the VPN. So, by doing this you can bypass many of the restrictions above. Note that if the company was blocking you due to legal reasons or to charge you more, then the company would likely want to try to detect your use of a VPN and block it. If, however, cost is the only reason, then they simply would not care because the cost of sending you the content has moved to the VPN provider. Since most of the time, region locking is due to price or legal restrictions, companies often will try to block known VPNs if possible.”