dclegg:phantasmNZ: It's just crazy to do this - don't they realise that the paying subscribers are no longer torrenting the content they are watching ?!?! - how is $0 per month better then $10 ??
I wouldn't rage at NetFlix. They'd be doing this as a result of upstream pressure from TV & movie execs who are unable to move on from their outdated distribution model.
I realise that of course. That said, Netflix is probably one of only a very small handful of companies who are in a position of serious power - sort of like apple with iTunes.
This is the age old problem of content providers (Netflix being primarily a distributor not provider) not waking up to new media opportunity. Piracy is not the product of criminal thinking, but simply one of availability, timing and cost of access to content. Netflix (and Hulu etc) solve this problem nicely - but the traditional media companies cannot think in terms of new media and would rather whinge about sales "lost" to piracy, whilst forcing distributers hands in blocking content and sending otherwise normal law abiding people into a still somewhat grey world of torrents.
Anyway this is off topic - so anyone got any technical analysis of what mechanism is in play here to block the CDNs from providing the streams? And, should this continue, what's the most cost effective Netflix friendly VPN service? While we're on that subject - what are people with VPNs doing with their router set ups (particularly with vdsl that I'm hoping chorus will eventually turn up and switch me over to) - I would be very keen for a gateway solution as I tend to use NF in multiple devices.
I guess I will need to drop more SkyTV options to pay a VPN provider if this isn't sorted. See Big Media - your anti piracy mechanisms are really working in earning you more money.
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