Netflix to block proxy access to content not available locally

Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by baddox on Thursday January 14, 2016 @08:49PM (#10906508)

Obviously torrenting requires slightly more "technical" knowledge and procedure than Netflix, but I certainly don't find it slow or low quality, and it has never made my Internet unusable.

And with a bit of extra work (very little, really) you can have a ridiculously nice torrenting setup. I can just add a movie to my IMDb watchlist and it will be on my TV in 15 minutes. And 10GB+ h264 Blu-ray encodes are much better quality than Netflix streaming (I can't vouch for their 4k streams, but I reckon they're still much lower bitrate).

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by jamespo on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:47AM (#10908652)

So if the highest quality was a paid for service, would you pay for it - I suspect not.

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Re:Netflix to block proxy access to content not available lo... by baddox on Friday January 15, 2016 @02:00PM (#10911308)

If the best service (which for me involves quality, selection, and convenience) was a paid service, and was somewhat reasonably priced, I suspect I would pay for it. I don't know exactly what "reasonably priced" would mean, but for the record I do buy a decent amount of music, mostly through iTunes, because I think it generally provides a better service than torrenting.

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