Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally

Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by Grue3 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:58AM (#10902596)

Nah, if you torrent you show there's a market for these kinds of shows. The networks probably do track those numbers in order to decide where to license their content. By torrenting unavailable content you're showing there's a demand for this content.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by rhino369 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:06PM (#10902650)

Unavailable period or unavailable on netflix? I understand the moral argument for torrenting unavailable content.

But more and more I hear people say they feel justified pirating anything not on netlflix. As if netflix is supposed to buy you a pass to all content ever made.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by NotOscarWilde on Thursday January 14, 2016 @03:04PM (#10904019)

> But more and more I hear people say they feel justified pirating anything not on netflix

As somebody from a "2nd world & irrelevant" country (Czech Republic, we are in the EU), the situation is:

* Netflix launched here with the global launch, not even Netflix' own shows are fully on Netflix, because Netflix licensed them to the local TV channels;

* Hulu is not available outside the US (it says so when I go there);

* Amazon TV, iTunes do not operate here;

* there are local "TV streaming" competitors but they usually only have Czech (i.e. bad) TV shows.

I believe this is a situation common in many of the countries where Netflix recently launched -- and that was the complaint that started this thread.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by rhino369 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:36PM (#10904697)

If you can't in good faith find a way to watch the content legally, sure go ahead and pirate it without feeling bad.

But my point was an 8 dollar netflix subscription isn't a "all you can eat" pass for content. Yet, people treat it like one. Like somehow content deserves to be pirated if it isn't on netflix.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by Symbiote on Thursday January 14, 2016 @03:32PM (#10904239)

The single EU digital market [1] should go some way to solving this (if the owners want to make it available in the UK/IE then everyone else in the EU can see it too).

But I don't know how that will work with licensing to TV channels, which are still mostly national.

Improved intra-EU parcel delivery will be great, too.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/digital-single-market/access/

(CZ is a middle sized country for the EU. Denmark, Ireland or Croatia are half the size, and there are five countries with <2M people — LT,EE,CY,LU,MT..)

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by izacus on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:40AM (#10908198)

We can sure hope so, but judging by the way how EC rolled over on its back to huge telcos in net neutrality directive I don't have much hope this will pass without content conglomerates breaking it in some way.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by admax88q on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:16PM (#10903647)

It certainly demonstrates demand for the content to be provided via a better business model or at least at a more reasonable cost.

Blu-rays are expensive, less portable, and require specialized hardware.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by rhino369 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:47PM (#10904788)

Of course there is demand for all video content for 8 or 10 dollars a month. But it's not a reasonable price point.

Neflix is cheap because it's got a limited catalog and the catalog is mostly old content.

Do other countries really not have a local version of amazon instant or itunes?

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