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There is a difference between piracy and VPN use; people using VPN's pay for the content, pirates don't. Netflix have consistently squashed rumours on restrictions on VPN use This is what the Netflix head man thinks on the subject: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...paurkZBnvvpSVl |
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Of course they could track you down if they wanted to. The fact that they don't, speaks volumes. |
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Companies like hbo, netflix will not block VPNs as they know consumers use them to protect their systems, if they started to block vpns there would be questions asked and no doubt hbo,netflix etc would gain bad publicity in the process. Smart dns is a different matter altogether whilst they are perfectly legal there is a grey area surrounding the whole smart dns scene. I had a chat with one of comcasts (xfinity) ceos and they said these exact words "it wouldn't be in our best interests to stop vpn users from accessing our service, we are working on a online only service that we will trial in the USA first with a vision of rolling it out globally and having all content available in all regions we launch in." |
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For those confused on what these services do: Each time you go to netflix.com it will use a database to convert your broadband IP address into a country so it knows what territory to serve you up. What a smart DNS does is act like a normal DNS server but replace the DNS entries for the streaming service you want to access with a proxy server located in the country that the streaming service serves. So instead of a lookup for netflix.com resolving to (say) 1.2.3.4 as normal, it will now resolve to (say) 5.6.7.8, which will be the smart DNS company's proxy server. That proxy will then relay your HTTP requests to 1.2.3.4, making netflix.com think that the request originated at the proxy server and serving up the territory for the country where it thinks the proxy server is located, not where it originally came from. Obviously it would be trivial for Netflix to cut out smart DNS services if they wanted to as they can easily spot the IP addresses of the proxy servers where there are way more subscribers than a normal broadband connection. However, that would impact on their sales and as long as the content owners don't put pressure on them they're happy just to ignore them. |
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Netflix must know who you are to verify you've paid. I do believe they could prevent access to different locations if they wanted to.
However, I do understand that it is being made clear in their revised terms and conditions that watching their material in other jurisdictions will be prohibited. I think a crackdown is imminent. |
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We get that you disapprove of these things and don't use them and that's fair enough, but you've made your point. |
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