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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: 2, Insightful) by acharax on Monday January 05 2015, @04:56AM
Has always been that should they ever succeed at crushing "piracy" they'd begin suing everyone that isn't already paying a monthly king's ransom for their products, out of mere suspicion that not consuming their vapid output indicates "piracy" must be at work (they've been assured profits by divine right, after all).