Netflix engineering should be clueful enough to only block Tor-exit nodes. We probably just have to find a way to get in touch with one of their network engineers?
-V On Saturday, 27 February 2016, Gero Kuehn <gero.ku...@gkware.com> wrote: > tl;dr: Even paying customers sharing IPs with non-exit Tor relays are now > blocked from accessing Netflix > > Hello everyone ! > > After two very fruitless attempts to get the issue silently resolved > through > proper Netflix support channels, the time has come to make this public. As > some of you have probably already read in the news, Netflix recently > announced a crackdown on what they call "VPN Pirates" and what I call > "paying customers using the same benefits of globalization that global > companies like Netflix (ab)use for their taxes". > > They have now obviously changed their strategy regarding the Tor network. I > am operating (among others) a middle-relay on a German residential fixed-ip > VDSL-50 line (dc6jgk1/486740353B905AA4731F82C0B4CC25821A62C6E3) behind a > NAT. Until 2 days ago, none of the devices sharing the same external IP > address had any problem connecting to Netflix and there never was a Tor > exit > relay on that IP as far as I can tell. It is also obviously not possible > for > users of the Tor network to connect to Netflix through middle relays. As a > consequence they should not be classifying such IP addresses as > VPNs/Proxies > and they should not be blocking them. This has been escalated and explained > twice to "technical supervisors" in their callcenters. 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. > > The official response from Netflix is that you now need to make a choice > between operating that Tor relay (of any type) and the ability to watch > Netflix. They also strictly refuse to refund any remaining credit in the > customer account. > > My personal choice with regards to that blackmailing is as clear my next > steps (conditional cancellation, 14 day deadline for refund and a legal > challenge of their German AGB with regards to this issue). I am allergic to > being blackmailed like that and being called a pirate by a service I > legitimately paid for. > > For those of you who just would like to contribute to the Tor network > without having trouble like that, please do not let this nonsense stop you. > A more diversified Tor network is a more healthy network and I would really > like to see more normal users operating tor relays operating in as many > different locations as possible - including DSL lines "that are there > anyways". If you do not want to be put into a position where you have to > choose between your contribution to the network and some legal and paid-for > entertainment, you might want to operate only a bridge until the issue has > been resolved. If you already have the same problem, make it as expensive > for Netflix as possible and spread the word about why this block (and > geoblocking in general) is wrong. Thanks ! > > Kind regards, > > Gero / dc6jgk > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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