Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs

You are essentially disguising 'where you are physically located'. The IP address of the VPN service becomes 'all that the world sees' in terms of routing traffic to you.

However, it's a mistake to think NECESSARILY that "VPNs allow you to access a streaming service from a country, not your own".

The hitch in the plan comes in because there are streaming services (and even just regular websites) that track down and blacklist the IP addresses of known VPN servers. They just basically determine you're on a VPN, and some will just say 'so fuck you, we assume you're not really here'.

It's not that they actually know where YOU are, but they know their traffic is being routed to a VPN server because they've ID'd the addresses of VPN servers in the area that are being used to 'spoof'. And they can just be like 'no, we won't route to that IP address'.

I guarantee you there's not one real-money gambling site in the USA where you're going to get away with placing bets through a VPN by faking the house out and making them think you're actually in NV when you're in another state, using a VPN. But then they are likely more diligent and thorough because we're talking state laws here.

So yeah, it MIGHT work, but then again it might not, is what I'm trying to say.