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Doesn't "blocking proxies" require Netflix to keep tabs on mercurial exit IP ranges for an ever-growing number of proxy or VPN services? It seems almost inevit
by malchow 11y ago
Doesn't "blocking proxies" require Netflix to keep tabs on mercurial exit IP ranges for an ever-growing number of proxy or VPN services?
It seems almost inevitable that they will enforce this rule only lazily.
- freshhawk 11y agoI'm guessing they'll just block the biggest advertised "Netflix unblocker" services. So the technically literate will be unaffected.
- roywiggins 11y agoThey could region-lock based on where your credit card billing address is if they really wanted to. Pay with a Canadian card, get Canadian Netflix wherever you are. Bit of a can of worms, but if they really really cared about people spoofing their location...
- nucleardog 11y agoExcept that their license for the content isn't tied to the customer's billing location, but their geographical location, and people are mobile... sometimes for relatively long periods of time.
- EtienneK 11y agoAnd if you pay using PayPal?
- Freak_NL 11y agoThe BBC seems to be managing to do just that quite well. Their IPlayer is quite hard to access from outside of Great Britain. If Netflix will actually do this, then it will be impossible to use Netflix with the majority of commercial VPN providers. (Netflix will lose me as a customer as well.)
- vidbina 11y agoI will have to leave too if Netflix succeeds in blocking such services. Between The Netherlands and Germany (two neighbouring countries) the offering of shows is significantly different. It sucks having to figure out which shows to choose for replacements of the exciting stuff you were watching before. Frustrating how territorial licensing deals are still made in a world that seems to be getting smaller, with couch-surfers, businessmen and average Joes/Janes crossing borders ever more often.
- x0 11y agoI just switched my vpn's endpoint to the UK, IPlayer works fine for me (I'm in Australia). Now, time to figure out what the differences between BBC 1, 2, 3 and 4 are.
- lostlogin 11y agoI know 2 or 3 technically illiterate people who have bypassed it with various location spoofing services. I definitely wouldn't call it hard. They subscribe to paid services that fix this problem for them $5ish per month.
- IneffablePigeon 11y agoSurely they can just lock it to whatever country your payment details are registered to.