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Netflix Begins Blocking Users Who Bypass Region Locks
An anonymous reader writes with reports that Netflix may be shutting out international VPN users. "Netflix can only stream the videos that studios make available in a given country, which has led to a booming business in workarounds (such as proxies and virtual private networks) that let you see the company's catalogs in other nations. Heck, one New Zealand internet provider practically built a service around it. However, you might not get to count on that unofficial solution for much longer. VPN operators claim to TorrentFreak that Netflix recently started blocking some users who use these technological loopholes to watch videos that would normally be verboten. The effort isn't widespread and mostly appears to focus on connections with many simultaneous Netflix sign-ins (that is, they're obviously being used for circumvention), but it's a surprise to viewers who were used to having unfettered access."
It's dupe-l-licious!
This version is tailored for different region.
Excellent. Today, I think I'll learn to play the piano, master a few vintage Atari arcade games and hit on Andie MacDowell.
Netflix is obligated to do this to maintain its licensing agreements with the Media Mafia. But it will always be a "cat and mouse" game...
Why is Torrent Freak's logo hot pink?
Dupe!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Slashdot uses a more insidious form of "soft-blocking" where rather than being outright blocked, certain users are redirected to beta.slashdot.org.
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Slashdot uses a more insidious form of "soft-blocking" where rather than being outright blocked, certain users are redirected to beta.slashdot.org.
I thought that "cruel and unusual punishment" was against the Geneva Conventions.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I thought that "cruel and unusual punishment" was against the Geneva Conventions.
You are right. It is against the conventions. But if we have learned anything from the patent system, it's that "cruel and unusual punishment on the Internet" is different enough to be allowed (and quite possibly patentable).