Could be the end of Netflix's blocking content from different countries

marklazarcovic

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/eu-netflix-catalogue-library-vpn-other-country-us-europe-uk-european-union-a7577311.html.


Fingers crossed it is

Antar Bolaeisk

You'll still be tied to the Irish catalogue though

marklazarcovic

be great if all content was available,id pay 15 euro pm for that no prob, ditching sky anyway

Agent Coulson

Your Netflix account is valid in any country in the world that has Netflix this is nothing new.

When you are in that country you have access to the countries catalogue through your own account.

Netflix has always worked like that.


Edit. What will more than likely happen if this court case goes through is Netflix will stop the open access like they have now and link accounts to the country of origin of that account only.

Vic_08

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Your Netflix account is valid in any country in the world that has Netflix this is nothing new.

When you are in that country you have access to the countries catalogue through your own account.

Netflix has always worked like that.


Edit. What will more than likely happen if this court case goes through is Netflix will stop the open access like they have now and link accounts to the country of origin of that account only.

That.

If they are forced to stop using IP location to enforce geographic rights then they will have to do something else to satisfy the right holders' geographic contracts.

I am sure the original leaky model Netflix started with was either intentional from the start or quickly seen to be a benefit to them for increasing their user base. No doubt the crackdown is because of the increasing use and publicity of workarounds from this prompting the major studios to lean on Netflix.

Geographical limitations will not be going anytime soon, all the content producers sell in this way, it is just a fact of the film/tv industry. Acquiring global rights for in-demand content would be prohibitively expensive and impractical, there are hundreds of markets and thousands of broadcasters all bidding on the rights.

Nollog

Hope this applies to Amazon video and the others too.