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

from the lost-cause dept.

An anonymous reader writes:Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt hasadmitted 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.

On Jan 15, 2016 2:31 PM, "Muya via skunkworks" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

"...Netflix have announced they'll be taking further steps to ensure users are not circumventing geo-restrictions...."

http://m.slashdot.org/story/305303

./mmg

On Jan 15, 2016 2:06 PM, "Riggson87 via skunkworks" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
For me, nothing much to talk about Netflix, only offers HD stuff of what i get on watchseries.  
As for fellow soccer addicts, wiz1.net works miracles with 10mbs. 

Bravo

From: Jose Muga via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Date: January 15, 2016 at 1:24:06 PM GMT+3
To: pkmugoh@gmail.com, Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>, Thuo Wilson <lixton@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Netflix is now in Kenya!
Reply-To: Jose Muga <jpmuga@gmail.com>, Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>

Hi
NETFLIX WILL BLOCK VPNS FOR NOW. BUT ITS REAL GOAL IS GLOBAL TV



Regards
Muga.

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 at 12:28 Peter Mugoh via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Wilson,

What are you seeing? Are you a fan on movies and series?

Regards,

Peter Mugoh
Sent from my BlackBerry®

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:09:32
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