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Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed


From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 16:48:35 -0700

Good for them. For things like Apple TV you need to turn it off at the router of course.

Matthew Kaufman

(Sent from my iPhone)

On Jun 3, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Cryptographrix <cryptographrix () gmail com> wrote:

The information I'm getting from Netflix support now is explicitly telling
me to turn off IPv6 - someone might want to stop them before they
completely kill US IPv6 adoption.


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:15 PM Cryptographrix <cryptographrix () gmail com>
wrote:

"What you are NOT allowed to do is impose new requirements on our
Internet to support your business licensing models and make it our problem"

They're not imposing new regulation on your internet to support their
business licensing models - they're imposing existing (and international)
regulations on someone else's business that existing distributors provide
controls for.

And that many existing online distributors provide controls for - hence
why they should be using the most local method of locating a person - ask
for permission to get the location from their device first (as is possible
nowadays), then try to get the location from any one of other fallback
methods (namely, IP geolocation).



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