Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Fri Jun 3 22:06:07 UTC 2016

There's really no point in whining about content providers and
regionalization as long as TV channels are still a thing.

I get that the internet totally annihilated borders of all kind (including
the book store), but some businesses change slower than others, and content
production is still back in the black-and-white TV days because even new
content producers don't have that new of a business model.

But nor are ISPs coming up with novel ways for distributors to offer more
reliable regionalization services (and most of them were in the content
regionalization business long before the Internet came around).

Pick one of those two problems and make a business to solve them.

Until then, Netflix's developers could at least use the "novel" solution of
tiering the most accurate forms of location before hitting IP geolocation.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:52 PM Naslund, Steve <SNaslund at medline.com> wrote:

> Actually it's time for Netflix to get out of the network transport
> business and tell the content providers to get over it or not get carried
> on Netflix.  It used to be that Netflix needed content providers, now I am
> starting to believe it might be the other way around.  Netflix might have
> to take a page from the satellite guys and start calling them out
> publicly.  i.e. "Netflix will no longer be able to provide you with Warner
> Bros. content because they are dinosaurs that are worried that someone
> might be watching in the wrong country.  We are pleased to offer you
> content from producers that are not complete morons...."
>
> As the content producers lose more and more control over the distribution
> channel they are going to take whatever terms are necessary to get them on
> Netflix, Apple TV, Comcast, Time Warner, DirecTV and Dish.  If you are not
> on any or all of those platforms, you are going to be dead meat.   Who
> would be hurt worse, Netflix or the movie producer that got seen nowhere on
> their latest film.  To me, this is the last gasp of an industry that lost
> control of its distribution channel years ago and is still trying to impose
> that control.
>
> Steven Naslund
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mark Andrews
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 4:28 PM
> To: Laszlo Hanyecz
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
>
>
> It's time for Netflix to offer IPv6 tunnels.  That way they can correlate
> IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.  Longest match will result is the correct source
> address being selected if they do the job correctly.
>
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