Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

Cryptographrix cryptographrix at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 23:25:29 UTC 2016


The information I'm getting from Netflix support now is explicitly telling
me to turn off IPv6 - someone might want to stop them before they
completely kill US IPv6 adoption.


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:15 PM Cryptographrix <cryptographrix at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > "What you are NOT allowed to do is impose new requirements on our
> Internet to support your business licensing models and make it our problem"
>
> They're not imposing new regulation on your internet to support their
> business licensing models - they're imposing existing (and international)
> regulations on someone else's business that existing distributors provide
> controls for.
>
> And that many existing online distributors provide controls for - hence
> why they should be using the most local method of locating a person - ask
> for permission to get the location from their device first (as is possible
> nowadays), then try to get the location from any one of other fallback
> methods (namely, IP geolocation).
>



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