[AusNOG] Netflix cracking down on geolocation bypassing (VPN, etc)

[Skeeve Stevens]

41 million? To Sony that is peanuts.

Think Taylor Swift... there is a wave of change coming.


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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM, James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
>
> > Whatever happens, Netflix are going to have to be 'seen' to be trying to
> do something, otherwise they may start to lose content
> > deals... They aren't so big that losing Sony or others wouldn't hurt
> them.
>
> Sony isn't so big that losing Netflix won't hurt them, they expected to
> make $US41 million in FY2014 from Netflix licensing. I dunno about you,
> but I wouldn't be so quick to give up that sort of revenue.
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/sony-pictures-mad-at-netflixs-failure-to-block-overseas-vpn-users/
>
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