[189642] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cryptographrix)
Fri Jun 3 19:25:41 2016
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From: Cryptographrix <cryptographrix@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:25:29 +0000
To: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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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@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).
>
