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Others have reported Netflix blocking IP ranges owned by cloud hosting companies. So this solution might not work. What if it was a peer-to-peer service? Whereb
by colinbartlett 11y ago
Others have reported Netflix blocking IP ranges owned by cloud hosting companies. So this solution might not work. What if it was a peer-to-peer service? Whereby the ultimate exit point was the home internet connection of another subscriber?
- icebraining 11y agoSuch a service already exists, it's called Hola[¹]. The problem is that the owners of machines serving as exit nodes are exposing themselves to liability that a regular VPN or VPS service would probably be protected against, and often without even realizing it. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN)
- undefined0 11y agoHola doesn't route users through other users, it uses proxy servers. Users are turned into exit nodes for Luminati.io customers (servers/bots) only.
- mirimir 11y agoHa ha. Why to avoid Hola ;)
- pille 11y agoI think most people's asymmetric bandwidth rates would get in the way of a p2p solution being usable. Maybe if there were some way to break the stream up into individual media files, and then you could download one identical file from lots of different users at the same time.
- jmiserez 11y agoBitTorrent?
- DasIch 11y agoBitTorrent works because uploaders only ever upload a small piece of the file. This works well for downloads but not at all for streaming.
- revelation 11y agoMultipath TCP exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP but that requires the cooperation of Netflix, naturally.
- eyci 11y agoIn the case of Netflix, the video content doesn't need to go through a proxy; only the website does (at the moment). So bandwidth shouldn't really be an issue.
- miohtama 11y agoEC2 is blocked