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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 BuckaBooBob · · Score: 3, Informative

      Unless Netflix is furnishing them with access logs.. They have no idea how many people are circumventing the access controls deployed by Netflix... And in the end Netflix doesn't care if people do as long as the courts agree Netflix is taking reasonable measures to restrict content to the licensed region..

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    3. 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. 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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  3. Nothing New: Meaning we've always done it. by Jason+Pollock · · Score: 4, Informative

    The quote is this:

            "We use industry standard methods to block VPNs. Always have and always will"

    They're just fixing the bug.