[189703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Jun 5 19:11:38 2016
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From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 19:11:33 -0400
To: Damian Menscher <menscher@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Damian Menscher <menscher@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest you focus your efforts on bringing native IPv6 to the masses, n=
ot
> criticizing service providers for defending themselves against abuse, jus=
t
> because that abuse happens to be over a network (HE tunnel broker; Tor;
> etc) you support.
>
=E2=80=8BI agree with damian here, almost.. I would bet that in teh flix/he=
case
it's not "abuse" or even: "ToS violations", but the requirement by the IP
folks selling their content to flix that flix do their best to block 'out
of region' access to content.
I dislike the IP folks as much as anyone, but :( flix has to make a
good-faith-effort or they'll lose content sources, I suspect.
-chris=E2=80=8B
