[189749] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Jun 6 11:45:14 2016
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:16:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
In-Reply-To: <2a51a7ac36d54b59b4c06a696358402b@pur-vm-exch13n2.ox.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2016, Matthew Huff wrote:
> You can argue about the content provides business model all you want,
> but Netflix has to do what they are doing. They aren't blocking IPv6
> users, they are blocking users that are using VPNs and/or tunnels since
> their currently is no practical way of providing GEOIP information about
> that users that the content providers require.
See my earlier email.
My billing address is in Sweden. My IPv4 address GEOIPs to Sweden. My IPv6
tunnel GEOIPs to Sweden. I am not trying to circumvent ANYTHING, I am
trying to watch content available to swedish users.
Still, Netflix is blocking my HE IPv6 tunnel, it seems mostly just
lazy-blocking all HE prefixes instead of actually writing some intelligent
code to try to find the people that are trying to circumvent the
geographical limitations imposed by content owners.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
