Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: If Netflix's promise to invigilate users' IP addresses and block VPNs is more than a placatory sop to the lawyers, and if the studios would rather return to fighting piracy by lobbying governments to play whack-a-mole with torrent sites, the streaming company's long-term efforts to abolish or reduce regional licensing blockades could falter this year. This article examines the possible hard choices Netflix must make in appeasing major studios without destroying the user-base that got their attention in the first place. I wonder how long VPN vendors will keep bragging that their services provide worldwide streaming availability, and whether some of them will actually do a decent job of it.

Comments

Re:There are a lot of IP addresses out there

[BradleyUffner]

Can't block them all.

iptables -A INPUT -j DROP

Re:There are a lot of IP addresses out there

[MightyMartian]

I can't think of a worse test of geographical distance than latency. There are many reasons why people even a few miles from each other night have high latency.

Why not just a divining rod?