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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:40:17 -0700
On Jun 6, 2016, at 9:01 AM, Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo () heliacal net> wrote: On 2016-06-06 15:21, Tore Anderson wrote:But Netflix shouldn't have any need to ask in the first place. Their customers need to log in to their own personal accounts in order to access any content, when they do Netflix can discover their addresses. ToreHey there's an idea, how about they ASK the users where they are located, instead of telling them where they are located. Presumably a user will have a new billing address when they move to a new place. That ought to be a lot more accurate than lookup based on a static map of number -> location. I don't think this is too crazy of an idea.. my car insurance company asks me what zip code I keep my cars in. Netflix could ask people what zip code they watch video from. -Laszlo
The problem is that some users travel and they try to watch Netflix using their home account in far away lands. Now you and I may think this should be perfectly fine and I suspect Netflix would like to agree with us, but I’m sure many content providers have their crania planted so firmly up their collective recta that they believe this is akin to piracy. That’s why they don’t want to allow users who are actually in <prohibited_place> to claim to be in <permitted_place> by using a VPN. The tactic being used for this measurement is silly to the point of absurd (why not use RTT measurements instead), but that’s what I suspect is driving this. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed, (continued)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mark Andrews (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Eric Kuhnke (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Lyndon Nerenberg (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Nikolay Shopik (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Ricky Beam (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Tore Anderson (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Harald Koch (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Lyndon Nerenberg (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Josh Reynolds (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed bzs (Jun 07)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Owen DeLong (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Steve Atkins (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Scott Morizot (Jun 06)
- RE: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Matthew Huff (Jun 06)
- Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Spencer Ryan (Jun 06)
- RE: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 06)