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Netflix Cracks Down On Proxy Streaming

posted by takyon on Saturday January 16 2016, @05:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the geoblockation dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:17PM (#290367)

    So edgy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:47PM (#290380)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 17 2016, @05:42AM (#290561)

      But you haven't lost your edge, scum.