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  1. Did they pay for the bandwidth? by Solandri · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Spanish Football League Defends Phone 'Spying' (bbc.com)

    The app, downloaded more than 10 million times
    [...]
    The broadcasting of football matches in public places without a paid licence cost the game an estimated 150 million euros ($177m) a year, it said.

    Data plan on biggest Spanish carrier is 15 Euro for 1.5 GB. Or 1 Euro per 100 MB. That's probably about the size of the sound samples which would need to be transmitted back each month.

    (10 million devices) * (1 Euro/mo) * (12 months/year) = 120 million Euros a year.

    So the value of the data bandwidth they stole to do this monitoring is probably within an order of magnitude of the purported losses due to piracy. If they want to pay you to run this app to help their anti-piracy monitoring, that's not a problem. But secretly eavesdropping and stealing bandwidth is unethical if not downright illegal.

  2. Re: How very Republucan... by stasike · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com)

    Here in Europe it is 8Eur/month for basic package, 10 Eur/month for standard package with HD and 2 devices used to watch simultaneously, 12Eur/month for premium package with 4k content on 4 devices at the same time. All that for a small fraction of content available in USA. Roughly 200 series and 550 movies available in countries around here, for example.

    If you use VPN, you can watch 1157 shows and 4593 movies available in USA. See http://www.finder.com/global-n... for more numbers and http://www.finder.com.au/inter... for complete lists. The links are from summary of article about Netflix published here yesterday.
    Mind you, even some programs produced by Netflix are missing, such as House of cards, because our local TV stations have recently purchased broadcasting rights

    I am surprised that VPN and DNS tricks are used only by a small fraction of customers.

  3. Re:Where the hell is the USA listing? by SlappingOysters · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Movie and TV Show Country Comparison and Content Lists (finder.com.au)

    I have been unable to find a listing for the USA.

    Hi Guys, Here you go for those USA lists - TV SHOWS = http://www.finder.com/netflix-... And MOVIES = http://www.finder.com/netflix-...

  4. Re:Where the hell is the USA listing? by SlappingOysters · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Movie and TV Show Country Comparison and Content Lists (finder.com.au)

    I have been unable to find a listing for the USA.

    Hi Guys, Here you go for those USA lists - TV SHOWS = http://www.finder.com/netflix-... And MOVIES = http://www.finder.com/netflix-...