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Netflix Denies There Was a Policy Change With VPNs

Posted by samzenpus on from the wasn't-us dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "The other day, Slashdot linked to a TorrentFreak story saying that Netflix was cracking down on VPN users. But PCMag has a story that quotes a Netflix spokesperson saying that there was no change in their policy on VPNs. Freezenet also did some digging around and found very few reports saying there were VPN access issues and even more reports from users say that their VPN solution is working for the time being."

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  1. They don't do it now by houghi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does not mean they won't do it in the future. Especially when they are starting up in different countries.
    Although it also might be that they will be able to cut through the bullshit and just show their shows all over the world at the same time. They might have the leverage.

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    1. Re:They don't do it now by TWX · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's not really in Netflix's interest to bust people for doing it anyway, especially if they can truly claim ignorance of the scale of it. After all, restricting countries by IP address could be considered reasonable, plus they get the revenue of the subscriptions that they might not otherwise have if people in those countries specifically signed up for Netflix in order to do this.

      It probably won't happen unless content owners sue.

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    2. Re:They don't do it now by oobayly · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Same here. Another thing to note is that the $5 I'm willing to pay unblock-us every month could go to Hollywood, but it turns out they don't want my money.

  2. technology! by slashmydots · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's almost as if VPN providers didn't build their services to stream 200GB of bandwidth per month for some jackass paying $9.99 and would ban those types of bandwidth hogs from their service. You know, back in reality they do that. In fantasy land, apparently EVERYONE is using VPNs and proxies to stream perfect quality HD content and it's an epidemic.

  3. Words and meanings by DarkOx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Netflix spokesperson saying that there was no change in their policy on VPNs.

    Might very well be true, but that statement says nothing about the frequency of enforcement; which might have changed.

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