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

[Jacob Gardiner]

They were lazy.

The same can be asked with the taxi & private car industry, uber came along
and filled the gap.

On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>>
>>
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