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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by GhotiFish on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:11PM (#10903146)
You understand? I have no idea why when they could of easily just turned and said "It's impossible to do that." Technically true.

You'd only take the practical steps to filter people if you really wanted to filter people. I have absolutely no idea why they would want to do that.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by bryanlarsen on Thursday January 14, 2016 @01:22PM (#10903244)
Why? They probably negotiated a license deal and one of the conditions of that deal was that they try harder to block the grey market. The fact that this announcement comes at basically the same time as their global expansion is a hint.
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