Netflix Is Now Available Around the World

Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by lorenzhs on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:47AM (#10857202)

You could spin up a DigitalOcean droplet in the London region around once a week and use youtube-dl to download the bits you're interested in. Cost would be like $0.10 per month. You could even make a script that sets up an OpenVPN droplet and automatically tears it down, would still be very very cheap.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by matthewrudy on Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:41PM (#10862774)

I ran openvpn on digital ocean before.

But then I wanted one in the UK sometimes, and in the US sometimes.

And then I tried to watch HKTV from Taiwan, so needed one in HK.

So I ended up with ExpressVPN.

But... let's see what happens this year. Especially with netflix!

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by lorenzhs on Friday January 08, 2016 @05:48AM (#10864052)

If you set it up manually each time, sure, that won't work very well. But you should be able to automate that - create the config (CA and everything) once and then just spin up a droplet via the API, install the packages, copy and unpack the config. I don't think you'd need to customize more than the sever's IP address in the config.

I built something similar with sshuttle (way easier than OpenVPN) two years ago, it's at https://github.com/lorenzhs/instavpn but it uses the old DO API and is rather hacky. sshuttle also isn't very good for streaming.

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Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World by matthewrudy on Friday January 08, 2016 @12:50PM (#10866705)

I'll have a go! Thanks for the suggestion.

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