Yesterday I forwarded this thread to Neil Hunt - the Chief Product Officer at Netflix with the hope that he would read it and have received the following reply a few hours ago.
Noted - this will go to the right technical people. > I'm hoping this is a sign Netflix will take this seriously. -- Jonas On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:20 PM, <tor_mana...@autistici.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > apparently this is happening with a lot of relays node (My italian relay > node was blocked too) > https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/472kqu/netflix_started_blocking_tor_relayonly_nodes/ > As Roger said we have to try to identify someone inside Netflix to pitch > "our cause", on the other hand, it will probably be really useful to try to > step up also in public (social/PR), for example asking to EFF to support > this. > > We are struggling convincing people to open nodes, we really have to > protect them, we will see a decrease number of nodes > > Aidoru > > > On 2016-02-26 23:58, Roger Dingledine wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:42:38AM +0100, Gero Kuehn wrote: >> >>> They did however not >>> leave the impression that they a) care or b) intend to fix this at some >>> point by parsing the Tor network information properly instead of using >>> whatever cheap&wrong hack they use now. >>> >> >> There is actually a service that they can use to do this parsing >> for them: >> https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py >> e.g. >> >> https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py?ip=128.31.0.34&port=443 >> >> Now, I bet Netflix has more than one IP address. It would not be hard >> to adapt this service to help them do what they should be wanting to do. >> >> See https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse#Bans for more details. >> >> One of our next steps might be to find a useful technical contact >> inside Netflix, so they can start doing this advocacy and education from >> the inside. >> >> --Roger >> > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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