• Copright holders want to have netflix ban VPN users
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[QUOTE=Scot;46011095]iirc the release dates for games differ per region to correspond with pay days or something[/QUOTE] It's like they think people are too stupid to be able to wait out a few days to buy it. Anyone who wants to get it on release will find the money and if you have to wait for payday to afford a new game perhaps your money can be better spent elsewhere.
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;46009542]Yep, because then they can play the victim, and potentially make (read: extort) more money from you.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sgt Doom;46011016]They like to squeeze as much money out of people in different regions just because they can. High prices in Australia may once have been justified when everything was shipped there physically, but in the Internet age they still get ripped the fuck off despite it not actually costing more to let people download or stream things from there.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=markg06;46011356]Of course, how else are they meant to prosecute people for millions because they've downloaded a film.[/QUOTE] "What was that customers? I couldn't hear you over my [B][I][U]FAT FUCKING WADS[/U][/I][/B] of money being counted" [video=youtube;ON-7v4qnHP8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-7v4qnHP8[/video]
netflix just starts hellbanning people, whenever they click any video it just rickrolls them in 1080p.
I would just [i]love[/i] to watch Netflix successfully ban VPNs because of publisher strong-arming, then their subscription base drops off as people just start pirating everything [i]for free[/i]. Netflix gets nothing, publishers get nothing. And watching them about-face like Microsoft in the Xbone scandal as the desperate money-hungry dogs they are would be cathartic as hell.
[QUOTE=krutomisi;46009932]plus from what I've seen an ad blocker will remove the ads but out of spite the page will still take the breaks and sit on screen asking you to unblock them with a countdown waiting for how long the commercials would have been anyways it's like they know they cannot prevent it so its set up to waste your time instead[/QUOTE] I don't know if this will work for you, but it does for me: Wait about five seconds into the ad break, then refresh your page and click past the little ad dot while it's loading. It might make you watch that fifteen second starting ad again, but it skips the other one to two minutes of them. All you have to do then is rewind it close enough to the resume point.
I'm not too sure how these things work, but how exactly do you block a VPN? What's the difference between me watching Netflix US in the UK using a VPN and someone actually in the US?
[QUOTE=BigSmokeDawg;46017894]I'm not too sure how these things work, but how exactly do you block a VPN? What's the difference between me watching Netflix US in the UK using a VPN and someone actually in the US?[/QUOTE] I'd imagine you would ban the IP blocks of known VPN services.
[QUOTE=BigSmokeDawg;46017894]how exactly do you block a VPN?[/QUOTE] You loop the incoming cable and put magnets on the outside part of the loop. Centripetal force put's the heavier VPN packets on the outside of the cable, while the magnets draw them out altogether. Or, like helifreak said. Use a list of known blocks of addresses. Checking latency seems like a good way to make your own list too. But then you miss out on the bucket of Packet slop.
[QUOTE=Sableye;46009510]wait so legal services that let people stream [I]licensed[/I] media are now considered piracy!? fuck lets just all give up[/QUOTE] By people who hold the rights in the country where you're watching from? Kinda. It's similar to gray importing.
I don't get it. It's like they want to restrict people a certain amount, just to make them turn to easier ways to actually watch a show. It's fucked.
At this rate, we'd all probably be better off just sticking to DVDs/Blu-Ray and a decent player for them. The way I see it, if these assholes get what they want, then there isn't much of a point in getting cable/satellite or having netflix/hulu. It's like these guys want to put more and more of a stranglehold on their copyrights, so people are eventually forced to pay out the ass for their stuff no matter what.
A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago.
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