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"... to access Netflix's popular shows such as "House of cards" and "Orange is the new black" ..." Well, these series should be the ones that you should NOT ne

• golergka 11y ago
  > Well, these series should be the ones that you should NOT need to resort to proxies for, since they're Netflix owned content. Except Netflix offered exclusive licenses for them to some local tv networks, as far as I understand.
  • levesque 11y ago
    Again the problem is cable TV. Hope it dies a quick death so we can move on to more modern channels of distribution.
    • izacus 11y ago
      So instead of cable TV I'll only be watching "This service is not available in your country" text on my home set? :P
      • s73v3r 11y ago
        Why do you feel so entitled to the work of others?
        • bbradley406 11y ago
          A customer in some countries (USA, major EU countries, etc) is entitled to the ability to pay for certain content. Why shouldn't GP be entitled to the same thing? Is their money and advertising-eyeball-hours worth less? This isn't to say regional differences don't exist (you can't gift games between some countries on Steam due to currency / local market prices). When you want to pay for content though, and the option is just not there, I think entitlement is the wrong word.
          • s73v3r 11y ago
            No, nobody is "entitled" to access to content.
          • golergka 11y ago
            > Why shouldn't GP be entitled to the same thing? Is their money and advertising-eyeball-hours worth less? Because the owners of the content, for whatever reasons (yes, these reasons are utterly stupid, of course), don't want to sell it to them. Before, I used a theoretical example of one-copy album, but thanks to Wu Tang, I can just direct you straight to them.
          • swiley 11y ago
            That was obviously sarcasm.
        • Symbiote 11y ago
          Perhaps you should direct that to the European Commission. "Tackling geo-blocking: Geo-blocking leaves many Europeans unable to use the online services available in other EU countries, or redirects them to a local store with different prices. This is often done without any justification. Such discrimination cannot exist in a single market." http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/access/ http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/access/
  • kleim 11y ago
    I confirm this the case in France: the license for "House of Cards" was bought by Canal+.
  • bborud 11y ago
    ...thus becoming part of the problem that affects streaming services.
• dangrossman 11y ago
  Prior to last week, Netflix did not operate in all countries. In the countries you couldn't sign up for Netflix, Netflix licensed its content to other distributors/networks to make it available locally. The content won't be available on their local Netflix service until those exclusive licenses expire. Going forward, now that Netflix is available everywhere, they won't need or want to license out their original content like that, since they can distribute it themselves.
  • revelation 11y ago
    That's a very .. factual way to put "we've made our international launch a monumental fuckup".
• gruez 11y ago
  >I wonder if Smart DNS proxy servers[1] will also be affected... Why wouldn't be? Your traffic to netxflix is still being proxied, and the proxy server's IP can be trivially detected and blocked.