Netflix Vows to Shut Down Proxy Users Who Bypass Country Restrictions
http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-shuts-down-proxy-access-1201680010/
A veritable cottage industry of startups has sprung up to sell
proxy and virtual private network services that let Internet
users access Netflix -- and other geo-blocked services -- from
restricted territories. For example, those allow someone located
in the U.K. to access programming available only to U.S.-based
subscribers. Netflix's terms of use explicitly forbid the use
of proxies or other bypass mechanisms. "You may view a movie or
TV show through the Netflix service... only in geographic
locations where we offer our service and have licensed such
movie or TV show," the company says. But that hasn't stopped
millions of consumers from turning to proxies to get around that
rule. More than 30 million users accessed the service monthly
from countries where Netflix had not yet launched, per a study
in January 2015 by GlobalWebIndex. Of those, 21.6 million were
in China -- a massive market where Netflix faces several hurdles
-- the firm estimated.
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