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Netflix is Cracking Down on VPN Users

posted by n1 on Monday January 05 2015, @03:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the colonel-mustard-in-the-billiard-room-with-the-revolver dept.

joekiser writes:

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) by Appalbarry on Tuesday January 06 2015, @02:07AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Tuesday January 06 2015, @02:07AM (#132067) Journal

    You could choose to offer as much content to Canadians as you do to Americans, instead of half as much.

    As of today: Netflix Canada: 4359 movies/shows Netflix USA: 8584 movies/shows

    Or you could choose to charge Canadians half as much as Americans, because we're getting less.

    If you choose to sell half the product at the full price you should expect that people will find new workarounds.

    I don't for a moment believe that content companies would refuse to licence their content to countries other than the US. I think you just don't want to pay the asking price.

    Thirty years ago you could get away with crap like this. Today it takes minutes to find out when you're getting shafted, [blogspot.com] and minutes more to find a way around it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 06 2015, @02:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 06 2015, @02:29AM (#132077)

    I thought canadian money was worth half as much. (Joke- please no rage.)