Tens of thousands of users protesting against Netflix – ITavisen.no

VPN blockade arouses strong passions.

While Netflix continues to expand its blockade of VPN and proxy services are growing dissatisfaction among users of the service.

Read more of our coverage of Netflix here.

not only “VPN Pirates” that influenced
It is not only those who want to bypass geographic barriers that are affected by this blockade, but also those who use VPN to secure their communications. This has privacy activists and concerned users to see red. Now tens of thousands of users signed a campaign to get the company to reconsider standpoint her in this case.

We have written about this earlier in the case “now puts Netflix foot down for American Netflix in Norway “.

must please the industry
as a result of that Netflix will please the traditional film and television industry as it has become more difficult to use VPN services and proxies to access content outside your geographical location.

By using commercial blacklists then throws Netflix too wide nets in this case. This also affects the paying customers who only want to protect their privacy or other reasons use VPN services to secure their communications.

More popular services
TorrentFreak has held a eye on developments in this matter and have noted that servers from providers who ExpressVPN, Mullvad, PIA and StrongVPN has been added to the list of blocked services.

It is also now clear that multiple users are blocked although VPN server they use is the same country as the.

Ironically it also appears that Netflix also blocks access to their own content, which they therefore own the rights themselves.

Open Media takes up the battle
Netflix’s totalitarian approach to this problem is facing stiff opposition from several quarters, and now Open Media recorded game. Open Media is an organization for digital rights and encourage his campaign Netflix to rethink their approach. The campaign is already signed by over 33,000 people, according to TorrentFreak.

– Privacy is big priority for us as an organization for digital rights and VPN is perhaps the simplest and most user-friendly way as regular Internet users can protect their activities , says David Christopher spokesman for Open Media to TorrentFreak.

– in the context of the proportion of the population who use NetFlix it will be a huge step back if they all were forced to not use VPN, adds he added.

There are better methods
Open Media advocates that geo-blockades are an inefficient and small meshed way to solve the problem on. Like many before them they emphasize that a better solution would be to tie access to content to the address belonging to the credit card used for payment.

– We cook up (sic) up a plan to take this message directly to Netflix, and hope that if enough users say from then Netflix listen to their customers and find a better solution says Christopher to TorrentFreak.

In a shareholder interview last month said CEO of Netflix , Reed Hasting, they are unlikely to see any impact of this blockade in the number of users.

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Source:
TorrentFreak
Open Media