Last week I helped a junior at the University of Zurich debug her network. She had been waiting for *Above the Embers* for half a year, which was released during the 2026 Qingming Festival, but when she opened iQiyi, a copyright restriction prompt popped up directly. Refreshing and changing browsers didn't work, and she was so anxious that she almost looked for pirated resources. I have been in Switzerland for 4 years, and I have encountered this situation more than ten times. New films released during domestic holiday schedules basically have regional locks, and it is not a problem with your account membership at all.
Let me first explain why you can't watch: The copyright of film and television content on domestic streaming platforms is purchased by region. The distributors of Qingming Festival new films basically only buy the broadcasting rights in mainland China. When the platform detects that your IP is in Switzerland, it will naturally lock the content. Even if you have an annual premium membership, as long as your IP is not within the scope of mainland China, you can't watch it. I did a test before: when logging into Tencent Video with a local IP in Geneva, the search result of *Blind Swordsman 3*, a Qingming Festival release, didn't even show up. After switching to a domestic IP, it popped up in 1 second, and the image quality could be selected as 4K HDR.
The Most Reliable Tested Solution
I have tried 7 tools back and forth, and the one I have been using stably for a year and a half is QuickFox, which specializes in optimizing routes for returning to China. For the nodes targeting Switzerland, the average latency I measured is 180-220ms, which is completely smooth for watching 4K sources. The buffering only takes 2-3 seconds, and there will be no frame drops or audio and video out of sync midway. The operation is very simple: after downloading, select
