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Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates"
An anonymous reader sends this unfortunate report from TorrentFreak: Due to complicated licensing agreements Netflix is only available in a few dozen countries, all of which have a different content library. Some people bypass these content and access restrictions by using VPNs or other circumvention tools that change their geographical location. This makes it easy for people all around the world to pay for access to the U.S. version of Netflix, for example. The movie studios are not happy with these deviant subscribers as it hurts their licensing agreements. ... Over the past weeks Netflix has started to take action against people who use certain circumvention tools. The Android application started to force Google DNS which now makes it harder to use DNS based location unblockers, and several VPN IP-ranges were targeted as well.
frankly, I think it's awesome and support the nose-thumbing at these european cuntries full of cunts that love to rant about how much better everything in europe is but for the life of them can't product planes that don't regularly fall out of the sky, simply do not have San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Redmond, or Dallas; and have no idea how to produce entertainment. Actually, I take that back. When I was Firenze/Venice/Rome the soaps had the most awkward, poorly illuminating camera angles. On the bright side the news was covering the garbage workers who were striking and letting trash pile up all over, which was plenty entertainment in between the marionettes and concerts.