Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce

[DEAD7]

Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt has admitted that the company has 'no magic solution' to subscribers who use VPNs to access content not licensed for their geographical region, commenting that 'It's likely to always be a cat-and-mouse game'. Hunt notes that Netflix can only rely on lists of VPN IP addresses, and that these can easily be changed. However since Netflix subscribers pay for the service via geographically linked credit and debit cards, this article wonders if Netflix really believes that hundreds of thousands of their subscribers are permanently in migration or on holiday — and also that venerable old VPN IP addresses — ones so well-known that they are routinely challenged by services such as CloudFlare — never seem to have any trouble connecting to a Netflix account.

 

[88m3]

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Getting a VPN was one of the best purchases I made in 2014

 

[Chris Cool]

Netflix Canada shytting on American Netflix. i only wish i could use the shyt on smart devices, hate watching Netflix on a pc.

 

[88m3]

Netflix Canada shytting on American Netflix. i only wish i could use the shyt on smart devices, hate watching Netflix on a pc.

stream from your laptop to your tv?

 

[Chris Cool]

stream from your laptop to your tv?

i only have a desktop.

 

[TRFG]

Netflix Canada shytting on American Netflix. i only wish i could use the shyt on smart devices, hate watching Netflix on a pc.

use unblockus

 

[Chris Cool]

use unblockus

....... vpn automatically renewed a few days ago. I'm stuck for the year.

 

[tmonster]

Netflix Canada shytting on American Netflix. i only wish i could use the shyt on smart devices, hate watching Netflix on a pc.

now I know why microsoft got rid of netflix for media center
by the way, anyone understand their motive for blocking regions?

 

[TRFG]

now I know why microsoft got rid of netflix for media center
by the way, anyone understand their motive for blocking regions?

its a open secret to use DNS maskers and region changers to get around that

 

[Chris Cool]

now I know why microsoft got rid of netflix for media center
by the way, anyone understand their motive for blocking regions?

contracts.

 

[CHL]

 

[tmonster]

contracts.

elaborate

 

[Madvillain]

what ya'll use for Hulu they don't like PIA

 

[Chris Cool]

elaborate

"Organizations that own the rights to those shows license the rights by geography. So this means that we have to acquire rights on a territory by territory basis. And that's why what you watch on Netflix in Brazil is different from you see in Sweden or the US."