Netflix

[Enzo]

Assim sim. Escusam de ter trabalho a bloquear os vpns, e a malta escusa de usa-los para ir ver o que há nos outros países.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Netflix begins blocking VPN users

Access to full content catalog now restricted
On Thursday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that some users in Australia are now being blocked when they use virtual private network (VPN) services in their home country to access Netflix content intended for other regions, primarily the United States.

Netflix’s current subscription plans license content by region. As a result, some regions have access to content that others do not. For example, the United States currently enjoys access to 100 percent of the company’s content library, which includes 1,157 TV shows and 4,593 movies. In comparison, the UK only receives 38.20 percent of the library (442 TV shows and 1,586 movies), while Ukraine receives 17.55 percent (203 TV shows and 562 movies), Taiwan receives 11.67 percent (135 TV shows and 385 movies), Russia receives 9.77 percent (113 TV shows and 509 movies), and Morocco only receives 3.37 percent (39 TV shows and 118 movies). The full list of content availability by country can be found here.
To work around these content limitations, many people have simply switched on VPN tunnels to spoof Netflix into believing that their IP address is from the United States.
In Australia, Melbourne-based service uFlix currently configures a user’s DNS and IP address settings into pretending that they are from a different country, such as the United States. As of recent, a small number of uFlix customers have received notices telling them to switch off their VPN tunnels.

“You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy,” Netflix said to its customers. “Please turn off any of these services and try again.”

The VPN crackdown currently only affects “a few users,” but that number is expected to grow in the next few days.

"The blocking is currently not aggressive and we believe (for the moment) they are only testing the new blocking methods on their customers," uFlix managing director Peter Dujan told Fairfax Media. "We suspect that they are blocking known IP ranges and gaining additional information from the user's browser or mobile device and comparing it to the proxy and user IP addresses."

Netflix availability by country (January 2016)
At CES 2016, the company announced immediate global availability of its video streaming services in every country except for China, Crimea, Syria and North Korea. Mainland China access is complicated due to current government regulations, while Crimea, Syria and North Korea are excluded due to US government trade restrictions.

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39742-n...king-vpn-users

[Jorge-Vieira]

uFlix responds to Netflix VPN crackdown, promptly releases fix

Last week Netflix announced it would be cracking down on users employing VPNs to get around the company's geographic restrictions, and has since made good on that promise. However, VPN provider uFlix has demonstrated how futile those efforts may be, releasing a fix just days after informing its users they were affected by the new measures.

Before its announcement, Netflix chief product officer Neil Hunt stated at this year's CES that going after VPN providers was "likely to always be a cat-and-mouse game."

Noticia:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/49870/...fix/index.html

[Enzo]

Será sempre o jogo do rato e do gato. Com os jogos e filmes idem aspas. Eles são detentores dos artigos, mas não da inteligência mundial para os controlar como querem.

[Jorge-Vieira]

US Military Personnel Rail Against Netflix VPN Block

Netflix has faced a furious backlash from users since it initiated its new program to prevent users from accessing geoblocked content using VPNs. Amongst this, one the forgotten victims of the VPN ban are military personnel serving abroad. Stars and Stripes reports that US servicemen and women will be left without one of their few comforts because of Netflix’s VPN block.
While Netflix is aware that military personnel use VPNs to access US content when stationed in foreign bases – “Netflix always exempts U.S. military bases around the world,” Anne Marie Squeo, a spokeswoman for Netflix, said. “They will still be able to access the U.S. catalog.” – there are a great number of servicemembers abroad that don’t live on-base.
“For me Netflix is a way of being home. It boosts your morale by letting you watch the things you would be able to see at home,” Petty Officer 2nd Class Shaundell Wright, a quartermaster with Yokosuka Navy Base’s Port Operations Dispatch, said. “We are already in a foreign country and everything is so different. So, to be able to watch Netflix feels good.”
Accessibility to more countries around the world is great, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jesse Fowler, a hospital corpsman, added, “but I’m mad if I can’t change where my Internet is so I can’t watch my own shows.”
“My VPN hasn’t been blocked,” Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Cutright, a Navy counselor, agreed. “But if it does, I will be pissed. Netflix Bahrain is trash.”
It remains to be seen if Netflix will take its VPN ban seriously, or whether the move is simply a gesture to placate content providers that are concerned about regional licensing agreements being violated.

Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/us-military-p...lix-vpn-block/

[Enzo]

Pois...tinha de haver contras sérios contra essa politica de geoblocking

[Jorge-Vieira]

Check out this cool global Netflix directory before it disappears

Netflix is fighting against unblockers and VPNs in hopes of cutting down piracy levels, but that's like trying to patch holes on a bucket filled with water. Patch one hole, the rest are still leaking. The leak in question today is called country-hopping, it's where Netflix users change their location so they can have access to different Netflix libraries. To help people on this quest, there’s the global Netflix search engine (unofficial, of course) that will tell you where you should virtually reside to watch a particular movie.
As you probably already know, Netflix’s library is very different depending on the region. The US traditionally has one of the best Netflix movie libraries, but now that Netflix has expanded to 130 additional countries there’s sure to be something new US users can find elsewhere.
According to an interview with TorrentFreak, the “unofficial Netflix online Global Search” (uNoGS) was made by ‘Brian’ for his own use, but eventually, he put it online and (not surprisingly) it has attracted a lot of attention. We all know one of the most annoying things you can encounter in our new and improved world is searching for a movie on Netflix and not finding it. No, Netflix, I don't want to watch a related title!
The uNoGS isn’t illegal itself (it’s just a list, right?) but it treads into some dicey areas. Netflix is under pressure from copyright owners to tackle piracy by way of country-hopping, and uNoGS just makes that practice easier and more public. So if you’re curious, check the directory out sooner than later.

Noticia:
http://www.techspot.com/news/63581-c...isappears.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

uNoGS Shows VPNs That Can Still Bypass Netflix Geoblocks

The excitement of Netflix expanding into 190 countries worldwide has sadly been tempered by the news that the video-on-demand platform has started restricting VPN “pirates” from bypassing geographical locks to access more content, especially since Netflix’ international catalogue pales in comparison to that of the US, the preferred region for VPN users.
However, a new site has sprung up that not only allows users to search for Netflix content across the globe, revealing exactly where a film, TV show, or documentary is available, but also informs you of which VPN works to access a particular region or country. uNoGS, or unofficial Netflix online Global Search lets you search for content by title, Netflix rating, IMDB rating, year, genre, actor, and even audio options and subtitles. A dropdown menu on selected content will then let you see if your VPN will allow you to view it.
For example, I was delighted to find that I could watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on the US Netflix from the UK using my preferred VPN, Private Internet Access:


““uNoGS is very much a one man show juggled as a hobby between work and family life. I initially built the site just for myself because the few sites that were providing a service like this were extremely limited in terms of search functionality,” Brian, the operator of uNoGS, told TorrentFreak. “I wanted to be able to see what was available in every country, when it was added, when it was supposed to expire and when it actually expired. Once I completed the initial build for myself I decided to share it with everyone and uNoGS went live in early May 2015.”
The surge in interest in uNoGS since being featured on TorrentFreak, though, means that the website is rather slow at present.



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[Jorge-Vieira]

Soldiers given go-ahead to bypass Netflix geoblocking

Under the pressure of movie studios and politicians, Netflix has become much more interested in cracking down on those circumventing its content geo-blocks, forcing people to only watch what’s available in their home country. However the streaming service is giving a pass to all army base users, allowing soldiers to watch U.S. Netflix content wherever they are in the world.
Although using DNS tweaks or proxies to spoof a connection from somewhere else in the world still requires a paying Netflix account, studios which haven’t licensed their media to a certain nation (yet) have been keen to stop it and they’ve roped Netflix in to help. Because of that, the streaming platform has recently made a bigger push to halt geo-block circumvention.
The idea behind this clever blocking is that it would prevent those from one country, viewing the content from another. If you’re a soldier though, you don’t control where you end up, and that could leave you with a massively restricted library, despite paying for a U.S. account.

Read more: EU Commission may make geo-blocking invalid
Fortunately though, Netflix has promised that those working overseas on military bases will still be able to use VPNs or other systems to access American Netflix content.
It’s not clear how this will work from a technical stand point, but it may not go far enough. Since the ability to watch content may still be restricted to the military bases themselves, those that operate outside them or live off-base will not necessarily have the same provisions.
Although it seems unlikely that Netflix will be able to block all of the VPN services, especially if they continue to evolve to counter any geo-blocking strategies, if it does, it could simply see military personnel resort to piracy instead (thanks TorrentFreak).

Noticia:
http://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/soldiers-given-go-ahead-to-bypass-netflix-geoblocking/







Indonesia’s biggest telecom is blocking Netflix access

Shortly after Netflix’s worldwide rollout, the company has arrived at its first hurdle as the largest telecom company in Indonesia is going to begin blocking access to the service due to the content available on it.
The company is known as Telkom and as the Wall Street Journal reports, it has begun stopping its customers from getting through to Netflix due to two reasons, the first of which is that apparently Netflix doesn’t have a permit to operate in Indonesia.

The second issue that Telkom has is that some of the content found on Netflix may not meet Indonesia’s censorship requirements. However, Netflix disagrees with this, in a statement sent to the WSJ, the company said that since it is not a traditional network broadcaster, it isn’t bound by the same rules.
The Indonesian government will now be assessing the situation and will decide whether or not to fully block access to Netflix throughout the country some time next month.

Noticia:
http://www.kitguru.net/channel/gener...etflix-access/

[Jorge-Vieira]

Netflix starts banning proxies from EU

Continuing its self harm policy
Australia is feeling the pain of Netflix's proxy blocking and this week we saw the same thing in Europe.

Fudzilla tried to watch a US Netflix via proxy and we managed to log in and see all these nice movies and series that are not available across the pond. But some other territories have already experienced the blocking at this level.
Once we tried to watch any of the content, for example Friends, that is unavailable in German / Austrian version of Netflix, we got a notification that we were using a proxy and could not watch the content.
Germany has as many TV shows and movies as Afghanistan and both have access to 328 TV shows and 1,440 movies. That translates to 28.35% percentage of the total US TV library and 31.35% of the movie library. Austria is even worse as Netflix lets Austrians see only 281 TV show and 1397 movie or 24.29% percentage of US TV library and 30.42 % of the movie library.
Netflix Albania is terrible that will let you see 33 TV shows and 200 movies. Netflix still wants the same $7.99 to $11.99 for the content.
A lot of users have threatened to cancel their subscriptions if the company gets serious with its VPN/ Proxy ban, and since Netflix seems to be serious about it, let's see if the users actually start dropping the subscription. It doesn’t seem fair to pay the same amount of money for only 30 percent of content.
Proxy providers have promised a workaround, but we don’t have an eta on that. Some of the fee options still work and Proxy for Netflix Free or Hola will let you watch the content in the US, at least for now. There is a big list how to go behind Netfix's back and gain the access to a US Netflix library.
It is not a fight Netflix can win. Either its customers quit, new customers don't join or people work around the block while spitting tacks at a daft Netflix policy that harms its business model.

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/39802-n...roxies-from-eu

[Jorge-Vieira]

Netflix exempts US Military bases from Geoblocking, but servicemembers worry that this isn't enough

Earlier this month it was reported that Netflix was taking steps to update its proxy detection techniques in an effort to stop users from accessing content only available outside their own country. The company wants to make sure that anyone found using a VPN willl be directed to their regional site.
The announcement hasn’t gone down well with US citizens who work abroad, especially military personnel stationed overseas. In response, Netflix says that military bases will be able to access its library of US content.
“Netflix always exempts U.S. military bases around the world,” said Anne Marie Squeo, a spokeswoman for Netflix. “They will still be able to access the U.S. catalog.”
For most overseas servicemembers, however, Netflix's gesture isn’t enough, as many of them live off base and rely on VPNs to access the site’s US content.
Stars and Stripes reports that Petty Officer 2nd Class Shaundell Wright, a quartermaster with Yokosuka Navy Base’s Port Operations Dispatch, said being stationed overseas can be a culturally disorientating experience. The ability to access US media on Netflix allows her and her friends to feel closer to home, she said.
“For me Netflix is a way of being home. It boosts your morale by letting you watch the things you would be able to see at home,” Wright said. “We are already in a foreign country and everything is so different. So, to be able to watch Netflix feels good.”
Before Netflix’s announced crackdown on VPNs, the company revealed that it had expanded operations to 130 additional countries. Unfortunately, the content offered by Netflix in these areas is usually limited. The US version of the site has three times as many movies and TV shows as the Australian one, for example.
A Navy Counselor in Bahrain expressed his views on the geoblocking actions: “My VPN hasn’t been blocked. But if it does, I will be pi**ed. Netflix Bahrain is trash."
Netflix began its assault on VPNs by blocking some members of Australia’s uFlix service last week. The Melbourne-based company said it quickly discovered a workaround to the block and was putting additional measures in place before releasing it.

Noticia:
http://www.techspot.com/news/63631-n...cemembers.html









Netflix renews House of Cards for fifth season, creator Beau Willimon moves on

Netflix has renewed political drama House of Cards for a fifth season which will air in 2017. That's no surprise considering the show's popularity and the number of accolades it's won over the years but there's a big change taking place behind the scenes.
House of Cards creator, executive producer and showrunner Beau Willimon will not be returning for season five.
Netflix said in a statement that it owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to Willimon for his strong narrative vision over the show's first four seasons.
Likewise, Willimon said he is grateful to Netflix and MRC (Media Rights Capital, the show's producer) as well as his fellow executive producers, the show's stars, its writers and the cast and crew with whom he's had the privilege to work with. After five years and four seasons, however, Willimon said it was time to move on to new endeavors.
House of Cards couldn't have arrived at a better time. The show debuted on February 1, 2013, as the company was reeling from missteps that included spinning off its DVD-by-mail business and an unwelcomed price hike. Since that time, Netflix stock has gone on to hit an all-time high last month. More importantly, it proved that Netflix was a true contender as a producer of original content and paved the way for other hits such as Orange is the New Black and Bojack Horseman.
The fourth season of House of Cards premiers in its entirety on March 4, 2106.

Noticia:
http://www.techspot.com/news/63643-n...ator-beau.html

[reiszink]

Para quem ainda não viu, The Walking Dead foi adicionado ao serviço português.

[jotinha17]

Para quem ainda não viu, The Walking Dead foi adicionado ao serviço português.

MUITO bom, NetFlix está a ficar com uma oferta de elevada qualidade.

[Jorge-Vieira]

Netflix to Introduce HDR Content This Year

With 4K slowly becoming the home standard for televisions and computer monitors, it seems that high dynamic range (HDR) is set to become the latest innovation for video content. HDR takes images of the same content, taken at a range of different exposures, and blends them together to highlight details that are imperceptible in a single shot.
Online video-on-demand service Netflix, which already offers a number of films and shows in 4K resolution – including its original shows House of Cards and Marco Polo, plus Breaking Bad, The Blacklist, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – plans to release 5% of its content in HDR by the end of this year.
“I think HDR is more visibly different than 4K,” Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, told Digital Trends. “Over the past 15 years, we have had plenty of increments of pixels on the screen, and from what we saw with digital cameras, pixel count eventually stopped being interesting.”
Amazon’s Prime Video has already released its first show in HDR; the Golden Globe award-winning Mozart in the Jungle.
“In the real world, you have 14 bits of brightness difference, so imagine stepping outside to look at a reflection of water or shadow of a tree that’s between 12 and 14-bits of range,” Hunt added. “TV only represents 8 bits, so you lose one or the other; you can’t have the brights and the darks at the same time.”
Netflix intends to offer 20% of its content in HDR by 2019.

Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/netflix-to-in...ent-this-year/

[Jorge-Vieira]

Find Out Who Else Is Using Your Netflix Account

Here’s how you can find out if someone else is using your Netflix account, and on which device.

Netflix offers a bunch of great plans for users, allowing them to stream movies and TV shows on multiple screens, or just one at the same time, if they so desire. But the truth is, many users out there like to share their Netflix accounts with others, and evenly break down the cost, because that’s the cheapest way to go about business without breaking the bank. After all, the $7.99+ price plan can be a little too steep for those who are tight on a budget, or just don’t want to pay full price for whatever reason.
The thing is, while people do trust others with their Netflix credentials, but there might come a point where one would get a hunch that their account is being used by someone that is not authorized to do so. How do you find out that really is the case? It’s actually quite simple and we’ll walk you through the process.
Find Out If Someone Else Is Using Your Netflix Account

1. Open the Netflix.com website on your Web browser and sign in with your credentials.
2. Hover your mouse pointer on your name at the top right hand corner and then click on ‘Your Account.’

3. In the ‘My Profile’ section, click on ‘Viewing activity.’
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4. Now click on ‘See recent account access’ on the top left hand corner.


You’re now presented with a list of devices that have been accessing your Netflix account, along with the country, as well as the IP address. If you find something unusual there, then simply change your Netflix password, or have a word with your roommate maybe.
It’s actually quite simple isn’t it? And it’s something which many people don’t know about, strangely.
If you’re a regular Netflix user then we highly recommend that you go through the steps and make sure that your account isn’t being utilized by an unknown person. If you do find something suspicious, then we recommend that you either change your credentials or simply suspend your account, provided that you don’t make use of it. After all, if you don’t use Netflix and happen to have an account, then you’re throwing away a fixed monthly fee straight in the bin, so it’s better to save up some dollars than throw them away.
Found the above guide useful? Then be sure to let us know about it in the comments section below.

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