False equivalence. Should the police of human state A prosecute citizens of state B for something they did inside the territory of state B?
I realize that the answer is sometimes "yes", but I don't think that crimes against humanity (orca-kind?) or rendition agreements are applicable in this case.
>I put some code in my forms that grabbed the email address when focus left the email input box – even if part of a larger form – and sent it back to the server. [...] Once I have that email address, I can backfill info to build a customer profile [...] This little hack is super-awesome because even if they don’t complete the entire form, as long as they fill in the email address, I get the data.
You should get a VPN.
Sure, it will cost you a bit extra, but Netflix has absolutely no qualms accepting your non-American credit card and you'll be able to watch other region-locked content.
The VPN I use has absolutely no problems delivering HD content from Netflix and Hulu.