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		swiley on Jan 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix's gamble pays off as subscriptions soar There was a Chinese blog site I wanted to get sheet music from, but the blog host used IP to figure out I wasn't in China and just sent a page saying a translation wasn't available and redirected to the front page. I tried accept-language headers and everything but they insisted that I couldn't read the sheet music.

baby on Jan 19, 2017 | [–]

That's why it's always good to have several VPNs with different locations.

pjc50 on Jan 19, 2017 | | [–]

Presumably they didn't want to attract the attention of the international copyright police.

majewsky on Jan 19, 2017 | [–]

Did you try a Googlebot or Baidubot user-agent?

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