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Some thoughts: 1.They don't need to stop you on sight, nor cur your connection every time you connected through VPN. But if they can eventually detect your pat
by eva1984 11y ago
Some thoughts:
1.They don't need to stop you on sight, nor cur your connection every time you connected through VPN. But if they can eventually detect your pattern, then disrupt it, which will lead to great inconvenience for you, and it will be sufficient to stop most of the users from using VPN.
2.They can surely use your billing information for this purpose, as it is case with Google Play.
3.Another thing to be remind of, a international user might not always use VPN for Netflix, likely they will switch back for their local content at some point. If such traffic switch happens, it is easy to detect for further action.
4.Again, it is quite complicated process I believe, and like all softwares, there are loopholes. But I believe their goal is to stop MOST common users from using VPN for cross-regional content easily, not ALL of them. This is quite achievable.
- lsaferite 11y agoThere are people who travel internationally. What happens then? Do they get mistreated due to the changing country where they happen to be watching? Currently they have their catalog limited and have to resort to a VPN to resolve the issue.
- eva1984 11y agoIt is possible that Netflix will just let it be. I am not sure as how the terms and agreement going, but the copy-right holder might only provide access to their content within certain region, so if you are out of that region, you cannot access it, even you are member of Netflix. It is just my speculation, but as consider the same practice is actually enforced before, e.g. DVD region codes.
- csydas 11y agoWith Prime, at least, that is exactly what happens. I travel frequently, and Prime just straight up tells me that the content is not available in my region. US citizen, set up the account and everything in the US, but the last time I left the country, it was pretty much watching Prime a few hours before the flight, land in Helsinki 7 hours later, Prime tells me "Sorry, content not available in your region"
- rhino369 11y agoThen Netflix should work on expanding their catalog in other countries.