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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by bobajeff on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:45PM (#10902931)
If someone told you, you couldn't do something, and the reasoning was some arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power over you, also this person is one of those types that always seems to find their way in such power despite everyone else preference to the contrary, but you had the means to easily bypass their authority. Wouldn't you be just a little tempted?

Keep in mind this is perhaps one of the few cases were you aren't totally powerless.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by pgwhalen on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:18PM (#10903670)
I don't think that the reason content is not available is an "arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power."
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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by HelloMcFly on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:46PM (#10903897)
It isn't arbitrary, but it likely seems arbitrary to many pirates.
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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:40PM (#10905724)
It is arbitrary. It's a quirk of scarcity economy. If content creators didn't need to trade off time spent on creating content for time spent on earning their bread, we wouldn't have this discussion. And while I sympathize with content creators here, we've turned this into a machine for big companies to print money. At this point, if the crude hack doesn't even serve its purpose, why should people care?
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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by bmelton on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:45PM (#10904768)
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/

Everything seems arbitrary when one does not know or cannot guess at the (usually more complicated) underlying reasons.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by chris_wot on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:50PM (#10904817)
Those reasons are because of negotiating local deals, or to prevent access to the content immediately to push up prices artificially. We do actually know the reasons, and it doesn't make things any better.
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