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

[Alan Maher]

Geo-location restrictions for  a paid service is a nonsense that only a
marketing idiot could devise.
Imagine a genuine, paid up, Netflix account holder who flies to almost
anywhere from his/her current location, and discovers that their account
is effectively blocked due to geo-location tracking.
Hulu already does this, and Netflix is not far behind.
With this kind of nonsense going on at the behest of Hollywood, it is no 
wonder
that users choose to circumvent geo-location tracking by assorted means.

Youtube has obviously been hit by "take down" requests for much of its music
as most of the stuff I see is of the bootleg recordings at live concerts 
rather than
the original copy put up by Joe Bloggs from his DVD 4 years ago.
And that is fair. I have no problem at all with that.

But what intrigues me is that I can watch local artists who are well 
known, in
music videos put up by the _record company_, but sending a link to a friend
overseas renders a "unavailable in this country" message.
Which is completely illogical. If it is free here, why is it restricted 
somewhere else?
Surely "free", is "free"? .

There is something completely insane in the way Hollywood and the record 
companies
are attempting to divide and conquer the world, when actually, all they 
seem to be
doing is alienating us all.

They will 'reap what they sow" as a consequence. And Pirate Bay & its 
ilk will continue in some
form or another to accommodate the alternative.
No matter how much money the Hollywood lawyers are paid.
The law of supply and demand in a marketplace is not complicated.
*Cranks up Tixati*

On 5/01/2015 10:59 p.m., Tim Raphael wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
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>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org 
>> <mailto: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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