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Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty
An anonymous reader writes: In another example of content owners putting the screws to Netflix and consumers, network operators are reporting that the popular streaming service has begun blocking many customers on IPv6 connections. Many users of Hurricane Electric's IPv4-to-IPv6 service have been blocked entirely, while users on ISPs that provide native IPv6 are also facing difficulty connecting and watching shows. Netflix customer service has been advising users that the only workaround is to completely disable IPv6 on their computers. The ban on IPv6 appears to be the latest round of a wider crackdown against users whose IP address can't be sufficiently geolocated. While the rest of the internet moves forward with implementing IPv6, content owners are forcing Netflix to move backwards.
ipv8 will fix everything.
We'll just go ahead and automatically upgrade everyone to ipv10.
Our surveys show that everybody will want it anyways.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
What does Hillary have to do with any of this?
Will she set up a server in her basement that I can use to VPN over to Netflix?
Why? Why?
Because they have one boiler-plate contract which they copy-paste for all their distribution agreements, they paid a lawyer $30 for it in 1920, and as everyone knows that Hollywood is run by jews they aren't going to pay another lawyer to make new contracts.
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