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

[Alan Maher]

With all due respect to Netflix, you have to wonder why the Movie 
Studios don't
stream the stuff themselves.
They already control the direct supply chain to the theatres, and taking 
it further to
control the internet supply chain would have struck me as logical.
But, I know that logic has little do with some of this stuff.
*Just thinking out loud*

On 4/01/2015 3:40 p.m., James Andrewartha 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/
>