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This solution likely won't work because Netflix would do this: A) Tally up all the Account <-> IP relationships. B) Perform an analysis on # of accounts per

This solution likely won't work because Netflix would do this: A) Tally up all the Account <-> IP relationships. B) Perform an analysis on # of accounts per IP that exceed predefined thresholds. C) Scrutinize accounts who are using an IP that is swarming with accounts from other countries. Total cat and mouse, but can be automated quite easily.

byuu 10y ago
> A) Tally up all the Account <-> IP relationships. In my scenario, it would be two accounts with two IPs each. That threshold is way below something truly actionable. I mean, could you imagine? A guy travels and uses hotel wi-fi, perhaps internationally. Now he has two IPs associated with his account, and so they block/ban him. Not going to happen. Hell, locally one's IP often changes thanks to DHCP leases expiring. > C) Scrutinize accounts who are using an IP that is swarming with accounts from other countries. This won't scale, and that's entirely the point. They catch ExpressVPN and co because there are 500+ accounts from each of the pool of ~20 IP addresses they have. They probably just block the whole subnet mask. VPS is the same, "this is a datacenter IP range. No customer is running out of a datacenter, it must be being used as a VPN." But a guy's home connection of 50/20 mbit/s can only handle two users, and can't be flagged as belonging to a datacenter, and can't be range-blocked. I'm sure there will be cases of a person wanting access to 10+ regions, but for the most part, people just want one extra region. In my case, Japan. In most people's cases, the US.