Netflix, no hope of winning the war against the VPN

It's only been a few weeks by the announcement of Netflix respect to block proxy, VPN and unblocker, strategy adopted to prevent users from a certain country to access content not available locally, but only in very specific areas of the world. It is a feature that allows users - for example to Italians - access to catalog US, which as we know is far more fleshed out and provided proposals sometimes very interesting.

However, accessing Netflix via a VPN is considered "pirates" like what happens when you download content protected by copyright via Torrent or direct download. It is for this reason that in mid-January, the company announced its close on services that allowed to bypass the region restrictions on service, but it seems that Netflix is ​​a battle that can not be won, and you can not do much to subvert the outcome of this war.

What I can do now is play the part of the righteous. He needs to prove to their partners who are doing something to prevent the use of VPN, but what he has done so far is simply send a warning message to users who use this approach, of course, illegal to access the service. The problem is that providers of VPN (which are often paid offers) do not have any intention to comply with requests for Netflix.

Indeed, even many of them are using some tricks to get around the block VPNs, preventing Netflix to detect a possible use. As described by Forbes recently, the case of uFlix who guessed that simply use a VPN private IP address (and not a public one) to avoid detection of the use of a virtual network. It is a feature that also have other services, such as TorGuard or PureVPN.

We reiterate, however, that perform these maneuvers "avoidance" is illegal in many countries around the world, with only occasional exceptions. In Australia it is not, and there are groups for the defense of consumers inviting Netflix to publish content in the country turned to the US: "We know that Neftlix has happened in Australia with access to American content. Taking advantage of this aspect we have built a base of 340,000 users before the service was officially available, "said Choice. "It is unfair that Netflix features to its users in this way."

But there is a much deeper problem underlying the question. On the one hand Netflix required to fulfill the legal obligations of the various countries, the other has to give a very clear answer to those who use a VPN, or other methods to circumvent controls. It may in fact prohibit access to the service users who use it, but this would result in explicit rejection of the money coming from a substantial number of subscribers.