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on Monday January 05 2015, @03:51AM
from the colonel-mustard-in-the-billiard-room-with-the-revolver dept.
from the colonel-mustard-in-the-billiard-room-with-the-revolver dept.
Over at The Verge:
Many users rely on VPNs — virtual private networks — or custom DNS settings to stealthily access Netflix as though they were in other regions. But Netflix may have started closing some of those loopholes. Torrent Freak reports that, in the past few weeks, popular VPN services like TorGuard have started seeing a spike in errors when users try to access Netflix.
Netflix has responded to Engadget about the issue:
Update: Netflix tells us that there's been "no change" in the way it handles VPNs, so you shouldn't have to worry about the company getting tough any time soon. With that said, these blocking errors started showing up in the past few weeks, so it's not clear what would have prompted them.
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(Score: 1) by beernutz on Monday January 05 2015, @04:28AM
Netflix has stated that nothing has changed on their end.
(Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Monday January 05 2015, @04:51AM
Comcast says they are the good guys .. :p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @04:55AM
Didn't 'the other site' run the same story but their summary suggested it related to a change in DNS servers being used, in the android app at any rate (the story was a dupe, the DNS issue was only in one summary)?
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday January 05 2015, @06:34AM
Perhaps Netflix uses an external source for their list of VPN IP addresses and that list was updated?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @06:54PM
Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me.
However, if that is the case then saying "nothing has changed on our end" is one of those cases where they are stating a deliberately misleading truth that most people would consider a lie of omission -- we still have the same process, but now we turned it up to 11. Nobody outside of their engineering group cares about the details of the mechanism, they just care about the end result.