Netflix begins blocking VPN tunnels and proxies - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 02:27:18 am
content: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/netflix-starts-blocking-australian-customers-from-us-catalogue-20160121-gman3y.htmlI'm not a Netflix customer, but it's crap like this that ensures that I never will be. Nothing beats storing your own content on your own disks. Always available regardless of internet speed, if the company goes under, or does something stupid like Netflix seems to be.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 03:48:34 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on January 21, 2016, 02:27:18 amThat's one of the reasons why I just can't get excited over live movie streaming. The 'pay on demand' deal relies on so much infrastructure, I find it unnerving. This was underlined when my wife and I visited our son and he was showing off his pay-per-view movie service. He paid for a movie and then we waited for it to start. We waited and waited and then left it, checking in every so often. His other internet was working fine, just not this movie. Three hours later we were leaving and the movie still hadn't started. I asked him if he could get his money back (you know - for failure to deliver) and he said no.I've never had a disk in my hand do that, unless it needed a quick clean first.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 01:29:42 pm
content: Recently Netflix expanded to a bunch of countries, including where I was born. People tried it, and they were pissed off, because even Netflix originals were missing from the library. Like HoC. Apparently, they sold the rights to some local channel ,and they couldn't get it back.This is so stupid IMHO. I dont understand world economics, but I have the feeling that something is inherently wrong with it.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 01:40:36 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on January 21, 2016, 02:27:18 amDo you keep all the eevblog videos on your own disks?

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 01:51:09 pm
content: Netflix is a rip-off, pure and simple. I had it for a good number years but finally dropped it after not findinganynew content for almost two years. The CEO gave himself a MASSIVE raise several years ago instead of spending the money for new content.

author: krivx
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 01:53:03 pm
content: Quote from: Stray Electron on January 21, 2016, 01:51:09 pmWhere in the world are you? Whether the price is worth it is your decision but new content is added weekly, possibly daily. I can only imagine you are in a heavily restricted country when it comes to licensing.

author: HAL-42b
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 01:58:19 pm
content: The Internet has become a purely commercial media. It has little to do with exchange of information any more.

author: MrSlack
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 03:08:53 pm
content: It always was commercial. People forget that. A rough analogy is that it's like the wild west with lots of small trade agreements in place, not an amorphous data sharing network.All the data that flows over it is subject to many forms of buggery.Pirate HAM or WiFi mesh networks are about as close to a free network you're going to get.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 21, 2016, 10:18:37 pm
content: Quote from: zapta on January 21, 2016, 01:40:36 pmYup! Got a 2TB drive dedicated to the EEVblog.

author: sony mavica
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 22, 2016, 09:36:32 am
content: just go watch what you want on some streaming video site there are lots out there