The content providers wouldn't care if it was a very small number of people evading their region restrictions, but it isn't a small number. Those avoiding it are already not in good faith. While I don't agree with the content providers business model, it's their content, their rules.
If you don't think it's right that Netflix is blocking VPNs and tunnels, then switch to Hulu and/or Amazon, however it's just matter of time before they start blocking VPNs and tunnels themselves. I agree that matching Geolocation with source IP addresses is a bad idea, but until someone comes up with a better idea and gets it implemented ( one that can't be modified by the end user), people with a business model that depends on it will continue to block based on IP. "Good faith" will be laughed at, and rightly so. ---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-694-5669 > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo > Hanyecz > Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 3:34 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels > > > > On 2016-06-08 18:57, Javier J wrote: > > Tony, I agree 100% with you. Unfortunately I need ipv6 on my media > subnet > > because it's part of my lab. And now that my teenage daughter is > > complaining about Netflix not working g on her Chromebook I'm > starting to > > think consumers should just start complaining to Netflix. Why should > I have > > to change my damn network to fix Netflix? > > > > In her eyes it's "daddy fix Netflix" but the heck with that. The man > hours > > of the consumers who are affected to work around this issue is less > than > > the man hours it would take for Netflix to redirect you with a 301 to > an > > ipv4 only endpont. > > > > If Netflix needs help with this point me in the right direction. I'll > be > > happy to fix it for them and send them a bill. > > > > They're doing the same thing with IPv4 (banning people based on the > apparent IP address). Your IPv4 numbers may not be on their blacklist > at the moment, and disabling IPv6 might work for you, but the > underlying > problem is the practice of GeoIP/VPN blocking, and the HE.net tunnels > are just one example of the collateral damage. > > I don't know why Netflix and other GeoIP users can't just ask customers > where they are located, instead of telling them. It is possible that > some user might lie, but what about "assume good faith"? It shows how > much they value you as a customer if they would rather dump you than > trust you to tell them where you are located. > > -Laszlo >
