So how is this any different then linking to a torrent tracker? I mean, I get it, I live in New Zealand and it sucks that our only legal option for viewing media is by paying for SKY and waiting 6 months - a year or more for shit to reach us.

This is still copyright infringement though, you are not authorized to view the media because you live outside the countries that these companies have the rights to broadcast to.

I can't help but feel this sort of shit is just to make people feel better about piracy. You may as well just be honest with yourself and go ahead and download torrents, at least then you aren't actually costing Hulu, Netflix, Pandora etc money by using their bandwidth.