[190002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Jun 12 23:11:05 2016
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:10:59 -0700
In-Reply-To: <ec81dde2-abf6-019b-f634-17902c4a18d1@gmail.com>
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On 6/7/16 4:23 AM, Davide Davini wrote:
> Today I discovered Netflix flagged my IPv6 IP block as "proxy/VPN" and I
> can't use it if I don't disable the HE tunnel, which is the only way for
> me to have IPv6 at the moment.
This is a rights management issue not a technical one. Netflix is not to
blame, HE is not to blame. Hate on geolcaotion all you want, but that's
what the content owners insist upon and Netflix has no choice but to
disable access from sources that they can't geolocate well enough to
make the content owners happy.
~Seth
