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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: 3, Informative) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @03:57PM (3 children)
So called "rights holders" don't have any right, nor authority, to limit what people can see.
Yeah well, they write the laws for our elected officials to rubber stamp. So our feelings about their "rights" are moot.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 11 2020, @04:58PM (2 children)
That situation is solved easily enough with pitchforks and torches.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @05:11PM (1 child)
Not it's not. It's been done before. The replacements with the pitchforks and torches are just attacking each other and are no better anyway.
The Party has a ~95% majority. You oughta make at least a feeble effort to vote them out first. The "pitchforks and torches" gag is bullshit
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 11 2020, @08:05PM
Oh ye of little faith! But it's not the pitchforks and other tools of force that defeat them. It's reality. Every time they try to legislate or enforce some form of artificial scarcity, a lot of people see it for the bull that it is, and refuse to accept it. And neither they nor the law can do much about it. They can make noise, try to scare people with extreme threats and whine about those mean pirates killing their business model, and try yet another idiotic DRM scheme, but those are awfully feeble when set against reality.