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Video-streaming giant Netflix has said it is going to stop subscribers from using internet proxies to view content not available in their home countries.
Due to licensing agreements, Netflix content varies between countries - many users have a virtual private network (VPN) or other proxy to get round this.
The firm said it would increase efforts in the next few weeks to block the use of such proxies.
Netflix expanded streaming services to more than 130 countries last week.
But some countries have more content than others - for example, the Australian Netflix catalogue has only about 10% of the content available to its US subscribers.
David Fullagar, vice president of content delivery architecture, said in a blog post on Thursday that the US firm was in the process of licensing content around the world.
But he said it had a long way to go before it could offer viewers the same films and shows everywhere.
Oh well, back to BitTorrent.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:06PM
I stream video through proxies all the damn time. Nobody blocks me. You know why? Because I don't follow the crowd of stupid morons who use Nutfux, AND I don't follow the other crowd of fucking idiots who use ShitTorrent.
Same films, same shows. None of your fucking bullshit. If you still use ShitTorrent in 2016, you're fucking pathetic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:16PM
please elaborate why bitorrent is shit so i can join your swarming hate group.
on a side note: shit is undervalued unless ofc it has been rebranded as fertilizer ^_^
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:44PM
Three reasons ShitTorrent sucks:
(1) Overly complicated. Downloading many little chunks from multiple places is a stupid fucking idea, when you can simply stream one big chunk instead.
(2) Ridiculously slow. Downloading from jerks on slow fucking links is a stupid fucking idea, when you can simply stream from a content delivery network instead.
(3) Blatantly illegal. Uploading while you download is a stupid fucking idea, which literally exposes you to legal liability because you personally are infringing copyright.
You know BitTorrent is even older than YouTube, right? And even YouTube is over a decade old now? Have you noticed there are whole content delivery networks dedicated to video streaming these days? Have you noticed they're full of all that shit you want to watch? Get with the fucking times and join the 2010s, would you?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:25PM
Get with the fucking times and join the 2010s, would you?
Never! My brother showed me how to BitTorrent when I was a teen, and now that I'm over 30, I'm too old to change! Torrentz forever! Sticking it to The Man! The Old Man, like me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:35PM
(1) You can set some clients to stream the file by downloading the initial chunks first. It is more reliable than streaming which has a single point of failure.
(2) There are plenty of slow streaming sites and fast torrents with many seeds.
(3) Nobody monitors the activity of every torrent. It's newer movies that get the most piracy monitoring. You can also use a private tracker.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:15PM
(1) BitTorrent's overhead is very low: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00000156/en [inria.fr] . And multiple small chunks improves reliability and re-retrieval when a chunk fails to transfer if a package drops or corruption occurs and the checksum fails.
(2) The speed is determined by the seeders. If you setup a dedicated server or server farm with a dedicated commercial internet connection to seed, you'd get the same speeds you would streaming.
(3) Unless you licensed the work, streaming is infringing copyright just the same.
BitTorrent is even older than YouTube...
It's "age" is a testimony to it's superiority despite the money driving the competition. The fact that Linux distributions, GOG, Steam and Microsoft (Windows 10's updates) all deploy using P2P protocols is because they tested centralized solutions and distributed solutions and P2P came out on top.
Streaming has it's place for the purpose of fulfilling instant gratification on slow, asymmetric internet connections. But with some broadband and most of fiber, you can already watch 1080p torrents live like you would streaming them. Really, the likes of Netflix are perfectly positioned to switch to distributed P2P protocols and can use one of any DRMs to secure any illusions of copyright protections the right holders demand to satisfy their 20th century notions of digital property.
compiling...
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:30PM
The first foray of the BBC into the online world, the disastrous iplayer 1, was a heavy windows client with DRM and bittorrent stye. It was replaced in 2008 with a HTTP/CDM model.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @08:52PM
Anon is an edgy troll replying to itself. Do not waste many brain cells on it.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:17PM
So edgy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:47PM
Still riding that edgy-train from 2001. That's right. BitTorrent is old. Using the same old crap that everybody else uses, doesn't make you insightful at all.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2016, @05:42AM
But you haven't lost your edge, scum.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:55PM
Anyone who doesn't use BitTorrent shall be modded down, because ALL the moderators use BitTorrent. Every single last one of them. It's like they all belong to same social crowd. And in their little circle of jerks, BitTorrent is the greatest thing ever. Because reasons from 15 YEARS AGO.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday January 17 2016, @12:01AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:26PM
It never ceases to amaze me. The elitism espoused by those proud to engage in theft of service in a way different than how the regular person has to get by with guis and icons that need clicking.
It sounds like you know what you are doing -- I bet if you weren't an asshole you could get a job that lets you buy physical DVDs or whatever and then you can timeshift or format change them to yours hearts desire, without having to resort to being a jerk about how you are so much better than the little people that eat the crap you manage to avoid consuming.
You're eating the same shit, you just have a different shovel.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:57PM
That's right. BitTorrent is too mainstream for elitist nerds. But then if you're not an elitist nerd, what are you doing on a news-for-nerds site? This isn't news-for-wannabe-poser-nerds-who-need-shiny-things-to-click-on. Get the hell out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Dunbal on Saturday January 16 2016, @09:36PM
The elitism espoused by those proud to engage in theft of service
If the publisher of a work willfully denies you access to said work because of the country you live in, is it really "theft"? Exactly how can they claim damages when their sales are $0? At one point it stops being about protecting the rights and revenue of those who produce a work, and it becomes a spoiled child refusing to share because they just don't feel like it. It's MY movie and I say you just can't fucking watch it because it's MINE! Copyright was never meant to give such power to any individual.