The content providers wouldn't care if it was a very small number of people evading their region restrictions, but it isn't a small number. Those avoiding it are already not in good faith. While I don't agree with the content providers business model, it's their content, their rules. If you don't think it's right that Netflix is blocking VPNs and tunnels, then switch to Hulu and/or Amazon, however it's just matter of time before they start blocking VPNs and tunnels themselves. I agree that matching Geolocation with source IP addresses is a bad idea, but until someone comes up with a better idea and gets it implemented ( one that can't be modified by the end user), people with a business model that depends on it will continue to block based on IP. "Good faith" will be laughed at, and rightly so. ---- Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-694-5669
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo Hanyecz Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 3:34 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels
Tony, I agree 100% with you. Unfortunately I need ipv6 on my media subnet because it's part of my lab. And now that my teenage daughter is complaining about Netflix not working g on her Chromebook I'm starting to think consumers should just start complaining to Netflix. Why should I have to change my damn network to fix Netflix?
In her eyes it's "daddy fix Netflix" but the heck with that. The man hours of the consumers who are affected to work around this issue is less
On 2016-06-08 18:57, Javier J wrote: than
the man hours it would take for Netflix to redirect you with a 301 to an ipv4 only endpont.
If Netflix needs help with this point me in the right direction. I'll be happy to fix it for them and send them a bill.
They're doing the same thing with IPv4 (banning people based on the apparent IP address). Your IPv4 numbers may not be on their blacklist at the moment, and disabling IPv6 might work for you, but the underlying problem is the practice of GeoIP/VPN blocking, and the HE.net tunnels are just one example of the collateral damage.
I don't know why Netflix and other GeoIP users can't just ask customers where they are located, instead of telling them. It is possible that some user might lie, but what about "assume good faith"? It shows how much they value you as a customer if they would rather dump you than trust you to tell them where you are located.
-Laszlo