After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy

Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by Grishnakh on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:22AM (#11572608)

I'm not familiar with unblock-us. Would a VPN service work, or have they figured out how to block those too? I would imagine that to do that, they'd have to keep lists of IP addresses associated with the VPN services they want to block.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by djrogers on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @12:06PM (#11573028)

> they'd have to keep lists of IP addresses associated with the VPN services they want to block.

Yeah, that's probably what they're doing. It wouldn't be too hard for them to get the first 95% either - beyond ARIN/NIC registration searches etc, they could just look for IP addresses that often have a large number of subscribers behind them, especially a large number of non-us subscribers.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by 9point6 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:35AM (#11572725)

They block anything they can detect as a VPN, which is a pain in the arse, because I don't want to browse at all without a VPN, so I can't use netflix at all any more.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by pmalynin on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:16PM (#11573742)

How I solved this problem. Bought a $5 DO instance, which gets me a personal ip that is located in the states combined with OpenVPN I can watch Netflix and do many other things that are US only.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by sheraz on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:27PM (#11573826)

Does this still work? I have a pptp server up on one of these for Netflix, and I'm getting negged. Should I just rotate the server onto a new IP?

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by rabidrabbit on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:16PM (#11574285)

There is a Docker container on github ( https://github.com/ab77/netflix-proxy ) that uses a proxy and an IPv6 tunnel that allegedly works with DO's VPS, but I haven't tried it myself.

A normally configured proxy and VPN usually end up with a flagged IP, as I've read multiple reports of people trying with DO or Amazon EC2 nodes.

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Re:After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians read... by russdill on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:10PM (#11575185)

I hear that using an ssh socks tunnel currently functions.

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