Netflix is coming hard on the Canadian users and has added more VPN services on its block list.
According to sources it is believed that Netflix Inc. is going hard on the Canadian users as it bans more VPN services. The blockade began at the beginning of this year when the company started blocking users from several regions including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and United Kingdom who were using VPN and other proxies to access the streaming platform. The recent attack was on the customers living in Canada and as it is seen the customers have shown great dissatisfaction and disappointment once the crack down operation began in the region.
The Canadian users were bypassing the virtual boundary using VPN services in order to watch the online movies and TV shows that are not legally available in their region such as Degrassi: Next Class. Reports tell that the viewers have started to receive error messages irrespective of the VPN version they use i.e. free or paid. PayPal has also joined the force with Netflix and has announced to deny any payments made to VPNs through its service. On the other hand, customers believe that the financial service is violating copyright laws. Hence they took this matter to social media forums and posted screenshots of failure of payments.
The streaming giant has not included the homegrown teen drama Degrassi along with other big name movies. It is not only Canada but any viewer who is subscribed to the video streaming service and lives outside the United States goes through the same thing. It is known that the Netflix library of US is three times bigger than its second biggest market UK’s library and ten times bigger than all other countries including Australia, New Zealand, and new Southeast Asian countries. Therefore most of the top name shows are not legally available in their region hence they plan to geo dodge the service.
Most of the customers use VPN in order to stream content not locally available for them which is most of the time. The chief executive of Netflix, Reed Hastings, turned down the concerns that the blockade process will affect its business in the longer run. The process first began with the Australian users however the impact in that region hardly lasted. It is not only targeting VPN services and proxies that allow geo dodging but has also taken down website that is offering pirated content of Netflix original programming through torrent links.
According to a source, “It is also working with anti-piracy partner Vobile to report links it believes are associated with pirated content to Google, starting with 3,000 links in December 2015. Until last month, over 71,861 links were reported, and some of them have already been taken down.”
According to sources it is believed that Netflix Inc. is going hard on the Canadian users as it bans more VPN services. The blockade began at the beginning of this year when the company started blocking users from several regions including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and United Kingdom who were using VPN and other proxies to access the streaming platform. The recent attack was on the customers living in Canada and as it is seen the customers have shown great dissatisfaction and disappointment once the crack down operation began in the region.
The Canadian users were bypassing the virtual boundary using VPN services in order to watch the online movies and TV shows that are not legally available in their region such as Degrassi: Next Class. Reports tell that the viewers have started to receive error messages irrespective of the VPN version they use i.e. free or paid. PayPal has also joined the force with Netflix and has announced to deny any payments made to VPNs through its service. On the other hand, customers believe that the financial service is violating copyright laws. Hence they took this matter to social media forums and posted screenshots of failure of payments.
The streaming giant has not included the homegrown teen drama Degrassi along with other big name movies. It is not only Canada but any viewer who is subscribed to the video streaming service and lives outside the United States goes through the same thing. It is known that the Netflix library of US is three times bigger than its second biggest market UK’s library and ten times bigger than all other countries including Australia, New Zealand, and new Southeast Asian countries. Therefore most of the top name shows are not legally available in their region hence they plan to geo dodge the service.
Most of the customers use VPN in order to stream content not locally available for them which is most of the time. The chief executive of Netflix, Reed Hastings, turned down the concerns that the blockade process will affect its business in the longer run. The process first began with the Australian users however the impact in that region hardly lasted. It is not only targeting VPN services and proxies that allow geo dodging but has also taken down website that is offering pirated content of Netflix original programming through torrent links.
According to a source, “It is also working with anti-piracy partner Vobile to report links it believes are associated with pirated content to Google, starting with 3,000 links in December 2015. Until last month, over 71,861 links were reported, and some of them have already been taken down.”