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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 7 01:50:42 2016

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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPYK2_xw-Xfph9G7LxAO5L80kM0FHn-B6g6ZZY_o=7JuxiSaeQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:53:15 -0700
To: Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com> wrote:
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> On 6 June 2016 at 19:40, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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>> The problem is that some users travel and they try to watch Netflix =
using
>> their home account in far away lands.
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> Interestingly, audible.com (the audio book people) actually warn you =
about
> this up front - they point out on their site that many titles may not =
be
> available in foreign countries and therefore you should download your
> audiobooks before you leave your home country.
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> In other words, it's not just Netflix that has this problem=E2=80=A6
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Yes and no=E2=80=A6 Audible at least let=E2=80=99s you download them =
before you leave.

Netflix, not so much=E2=80=A6

Owen


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> Harald


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