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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:35PM (2 children)
You're focusing on whether the book seller has the *right* to not sell you something, which is a valid concern, but what baffles me more is whether the book seller has any *motivation* to not sell you something. Unless the book to be shipped would get the seller in legal trouble due to e.g. morality laws of the destination country, the reasoning to not want to make the sale eludes me.
But WEMAKETVANDMOVIE people create that motivation by first creating business deals that only Country A can sell this stuff to people in Country A. Having made that deal, your VPN, without further examination, appears to mess it up and needs to be stopped before the deal falls apart. In other words, it isn't about the customer or the customer's money at all. It's about some unrelated-to-the-customer deal that must be far more lucrative than your $monthly.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @09:15AM (1 child)
I can't understand this argument.
Let's say I live outside the US. So, I buy Netflix in my country. I use a VPN to connect to US Netflix servers. Netflix has licensed the content in the US. They pay, I pay, I watch, all happy?
Up this a bit. Let's say the content is not available in my country. Or, I just can't pay for it here. Same thing: connect with VPN, and we're all happy? Right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @03:33PM
The US party that receives the payment for the license may not be the one with the right to sell distribution rights where you're located. That's the detail a lot of people in this discussion are missing. Paying the wrong party for rights isn't any different than just pirating, except that you can pretend like it's a licensed copy. But, you might as well just pirate at that point.