NetFlix tip

[albatros43]

batoncolle - Per Terms of Use (and already posted here) - "You also agree not to: circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections in the Netflix service"

Geography is part of the content protection. Intentional or not, you are circumventing the content protection and are actively advocating for it by starting this thread. That's pretty clear (to me at least).

 

[Kyzrsoze]

Hopefully the new "fix nics" bill will add criminals like batoncolle to the nics database.

Using a VPN to view European content also makes you a virtual illegal alien.

 

[albatros43]

Using a VPN to view European content also makes you a virtual illegal alien.

Checkmate!

 

[Fatal_Bert]

Using a VPN to view European content also makes you a virtual illegal alien.

We're going to build a big virtual cyber wall, and batoncolle is going to pay for it.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

We're going to build a big virtual cyber wall, and batoncolle is going to pay for it.

It will be the best wall built by the best people. It will be Yuge. Believe me.

 

[batoncolle]

batoncolle - Per Terms of Use (and already posted here) - "You also agree not to: circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any of the content protections in the Netflix service"

Geography is part of the content protection. Intentional or not, you are circumventing the content protection and are actively advocating for it by starting this thread. That's pretty clear (to me at least).

Yes and contact them ask them specifically if using a VPN to connect is prohibited, and you get "it's not recommended". Of course when you connect via VPN, that's what happens. And there is an easy way to fix it, but it's not being done.

But hey it allows statists that want private contracts between companies to somehow become de-facto regulations on the public, to call people thieves so it's all good...

 

[NWSharpshooter]

Yes and contact them ask them specifically if using a VPN to connect is prohibited, and you get "it's not recommended". Of course when you connect via VPN, that's what happens. And there is an easy way to fix it, but it's not being done.

But hey it allows statists that want private contracts between companies to somehow become de-facto regulations on the public, to call people thieves so it's all good...

You are not advocating simply connecting via VPN. My computer is connected to multiple VPNs all day every day. What you are advocating is connecting via a proxy so it hides your computers location or shows your connection coming from another country.



Ok, I will put it in the simplest terms I can. Has the content provider been compensated for Netflix to offer their content in the United States? No. Are you bypassing geographic controls to obtain access to that content anyway? Yes. Are you stealing from Netflix? No. Are you stealing from the content provider? Yes.

What do you call it when someone takes something against the will of someone else without compensation?

 

[albatros43]

Yes and contact them ask them specifically if using a VPN to connect is prohibited, and you get "it's not recommended". Of course when you connect via VPN, that's what happens. And there is an easy way to fix it, but it's not being done.

But hey it allows statists that want private contracts between companies to somehow become de-facto regulations on the public, to call people thieves so it's all good...

Did you say, "Hey, when I use my VPN I can see EU content, is that ok?". If you had asked them that I think the answer would have been different. Sure, they can try to build in ways to not allow people to circumvent, but you admittedly are.

Can you explain how per the Terms of Use you are not circumventing? Because they said I can use a VPN is not the right answer.

 

[batoncolle]

Ok, I will put it in the simplest terms I can. Has the content provider been compensated for Netflix to offer their content in the United States? No. Are you bypassing geographic controls to obtain access to that content anyway? Yes. Are you stealing from Netflix? No. Are you stealing from the content provider? Yes.

What do you call it when someone takes something against the will of someone else without compensation?

And I will put it in simplest terms I can. You want private contracts between companies to somehow become de-facto regulations on the public. I'll wait for the legal course to sort it out before I'll start running off at the mouth and calling people thieves. Especially when the legal course so far in Australia, the EU, and many other countries says it is in fact not a violation of copyright law.

Now this is the part where you'll say yet again "I'll let you continue your thread, and you're a thief".

 

[batoncolle]

Did you say, "Hey, when I use my VPN I can see EU content, is that ok?". If you had asked them that I think the answer would have been different. Sure, they can try to build in ways to not allow people to circumvent, but you admittedly are.

Can you explain how per the Terms of Use you are not circumventing? Because they said I can use a VPN is not the right answer.

I did. It's not recommended.