Monday, 18 January 2016

Why the Netflix Crackdown on VPNs Will Ultimately Fail

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If you’re a Netflix user, the quality of the service you’ll get is entirely contingent upon where you live, as huge swathes of the company’s video library is under tight geographic restrictions. If you live in the UK, you won’t be able to stream any Star Trek, for example, as CBS hasn’t licensed that out to Netflix in your region. On the other hand, if you live in the U.S., you won’t be able to watch as many BBC shows as someone living in the UK. To get around this annoyance, users have taken to using VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)...

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