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

[Tim Raphael]

An update: 

Engadget got a reply from Netflix directly stating they are not handing VPNs etc any different to how they have previously.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/03/netflix-clamps-down-on-vpns/

(See the update at the bottom on the page)

Regards,

Tim

> On 4 Jan 2015, at 4:51 pm, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> hahahaha... indeed.  Sony do have a decent infrastructure with the PlayStation network, but they need distributors like all content creators because Sony don't have enough contend to attract customers of their own in scale.. no one really does.
> 
> Btw.. it is DPRK.
> 
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>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:33:43PM +1100, 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 don't need Netflix to help them with Internet distribution, they've got
>> quite the deal going with PRNK (or belligerent ex-employees, depending on
>> who you prefer to believe).
>> 
>> - Matt
>> 
>> --
>> I tend to think of "solution" as just a pretentious term for "thingy".
>> Doing that word substitution in my head makes IT marketing literature
>> somewhat more tolerable.
>>                 -- lutchann, in http://lwn.net/Articles/124703/
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