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posted by n1 on Monday January 05 2015, @03:51AM   Printer-friendly
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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:21AM (#131768)

    Go away Stallman.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:39AM (#131770)

    Go away Valenti.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:50AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 05 2015, @05:50AM (#131771)

      Go away, . . . . well, just go away. DRM will die, just like Aparteid. Fricking Afrikaaners!