On 23 August 2025 18:31:56 CEST, jay--- via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On 8/23/25 08:40, nanog--- via NANOG wrote:
It's a basic principle of a free market that you cannot force someone to provide service. If Netflix wants to ban certain IP ranges at random, they're allowed to do that and the only recourse is whining.
Customers in those random IP ranges who are paying for the service would beg to differ. They're paying for a service which Netflix intentionally is refusing to provide, based on erroneous data from a third party hired by Netflix.
Of course they would like Netflix to provide them service. As I said though, their only recourse is to whine. And cancel the service (they're not getting it anyway). That's the free market, take it or leave it. A lot of people don't like the free market, but I gather that they're still a relative minority. Optionally pay a $200 court fee to get your last $20 monthly payment back.
Part of the problem is that the term "IP address" was chosen instead of "IP number" or "IP identifier". It leads to the false assumption that an "address" relates to a physical location.