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Since early 2020 Netflix has cracked down on VPN users by disconnecting sessions at random and terminating SSL connections to their main website. This action is to due to content distributors pressuring Netflix to prevent users from accessing content outside of their geographical zone as they believe this is costing them in terms of profit. The end result is that users who always use a VPN to access the internet are cut from Netflix as collateral damage even if their account is registered in the same country where they connect to a VPN for. While some VPN providers have given up, NordVPN and a few others are battling on to provide their users with peace of mind while accessing services on the internet.
Can I get my money back because Netflix is not delivering the service I paid for?
(Score: 5, Informative) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 11 2020, @03:09PM (8 children)
Accessing through VPN the content you have paid for is not piracy.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @03:12PM (2 children)
Failing to fellate the "rights holders" to their satisfaction is piracy.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @12:10AM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWP88WKVBKs [youtube.com]
You are not wrong. It just feels like crap from our PoV.
But basically they have sliced and diced the 'rights' to the movies so much it is a royal PITA to show it anywhere, legally.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @01:50PM
Just to be clear -- it's not netflix that has sliced and diced the rights. They only get a specific slices from the copyright owners.
I would love to see a regime where the distributors (such as Netflix) were separated from the creators. The way they once were.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @03:54PM (3 children)
And neither is accessing it through a torrent. When you paid for the content, they have no right to block you from accessing it, no matter how it's done.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:20AM
I suspect they would disagree here, saying that you only had licence to view through one medium.
This is the same as 'I purchased the CD so I can listen to the radio for free at work'.
No, they still want to charge you.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Monday April 13 2020, @01:29AM
Depends on what limits you agreed to in the Terms of Service. You may have given up that right. It's safer to just buy the dvd. I believe that's still just governed by basic copyright which I believe allows medium shifting around here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @06:43AM
What they are doing here amounts to 'You paid for the rights to view content through our network, but we're blocking you because we don't like VPN'. Not sure how this is legal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @03:30PM
Depends, if you're accessing ones in your local market, it's not. If you're using it to access content that's not available in your market, it is piracy. Whether or not that should be, is a different matter.