By Blocking Virtual Private Networks, Netflix Is Undermining User Security
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/09/netflix_is_blocking_vpns_and_undermining_user_security.html
Netflix's interest in VPNs isn't about the privacy protections
they offer. It's about accommodating Hollywood's insistence on
geographic content restrictions. Because the Netflix streaming
catalog is thinner in other countries, some people overseas use
VPNs to make it appear that they're in the United States,
connecting to servers based inside the U.S. so they'll get
access to more content. To "fix" this, Netflix decided to simply
block everyone who's using a growing number of VPN services. In
an earnings call in January, shortly after the announcement of
tighter policing of VPNs, Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, termed
this an "expanded and enhanced blacklist."
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--Lauren--
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