Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally

Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by izacus on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:17PM (#10902721)

I think it's a difference in scale. It's one thing for everyone to shrug off lack of a single service, but people aren't going wait 3-5 years for every show heavily marketed to them on the internet.

Blocking things geographically didn't work in socialist times before 1990 and expecting it to work now is rather naive :/

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by wlesieutre on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:25PM (#10902788)

That plus the ease of spoilers that people toss around online, under the assumption that anybody who was going to watch a show is caught up by now.

Good luck watching A Game of Thrones 5 years behind everyone else without hearing who dies.

I haven't kept up with it, but I heard allll about a particular Stark last season (details omitted on the off chance that someone else hasn't). Even from newspapers and congresspeople on that one, IIRC.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by tragic on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:38PM (#10903834)

I'm not, by nature, spoiler adverse. But the issue is that there just genuinely is only so long you can hold out from learning about a twist or a cliffhanger if you're interested in it. A shock TV moment is not good for each individual viewer, but works once for the whole population of viewers.

This works well as an aesthetic device for popular culture, where the purpose is in large part to catch the zeitgeist in the short term. I don't want to sound snobbish about this - Charles Dickens was a master of this type of thing, after all, and his present reputation as a Great Writer In English Literature would amuse and appall the snobs of his day, if they only knew. The best parts of mass popular culture endure after everyone knows he's his father, or its a sled, or little Nell dies.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by AznHisoka on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:01PM (#10903528)

I absolutely hate online publications that try too hard to hide the spoiler by saying "Here's what really happened to <X> last season", or "X didn't die!!" Umm.. saying X didn't die in Game of Thrones is already a spoiler.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by wlesieutre on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:11PM (#10903611)

Oh my god do I hate those. I was a week or two late on the Star Wars train recently, and had to basically stop visiting Facebook because of all the clickbait headlines that they stuff into newsfeeds.

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"THIS CHARACTER WAS ORIGINALLY MARKED FOR DEATH IN STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS!"

Ok, sure, you didn't give me a name, but going into the movie after reading that made it pretty fucking obvious.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:45PM (#10905357)

That's interesting. I read the books many moons ago, and have mostly ignored the TV show (till next season, because George is taking too long). I never heard about said Stark (reasonably certain I know which one) from anyone in popular culture.

That being said, I've never been good at keeping up with popular culture ;)

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