JimmyC:psychnurse:
In a deregulated industry, I guess it comes down to "do you want to be that ISP that didn't respond to customer complaints when most of your competitors took action?"
ISP's may be deregulated but if your partner has existing licensing agreements in place with content providers, agreements which allowing access to Netflix directly contravenes, what are you supposed to do?
Having said that, this is now a very public problem so I'm confident they'll make the change, even if it's a stealth fix. It was an update to their proxy, nothing more, nothing less.
The way I see it, it's not so much a Netflix issue but a "transparent" cache issue that is having an impact on Netflix. If your cache is caching (Pragma: no-cache & Cache-Control: no-store) requests, without revalidating it is broken and needs to be fixed. I don't see how they could justify not fixing it. The fact that this would have the effect of allowing users to use this service which is outside the terms of their agreement (with netflix) is a separate issue and should have no bearing on it being fixed or not fixed.
note - I don't use Netflix and am with Snap so wouldn't have any issues if I did.