Netflix

[phantom_power]

I seem to be able to access other country's Netflix libraries with my VPN again. Can anyone else do this? Have they stopped whatever workaround they had or have the VPNs got smarter?

[surreal]

I think it depends who you use - the US is probably better "protected" by netflix.  I can always get things like the Netherlands using NordVPN, whereas to get the US I need to use specific servers from them so it's a bit more of a faff

[a duncandisorderly]

slightly off-topic, but my mrs (in madrid) had to borrow my ipad to watch some shite or other that was only available on amazon prime for the UK. still in madrid, I told her ipad that it was a uk-based device, & the uk content magically appeared. maybe it's that easy...

[Sebastian Cobb]

slightly off-topic, but my mrs (in madrid) had to borrow my ipad to watch some shite or other that was only available on amazon prime for the UK. still in madrid, I told her ipad that it was a uk-based device, & the uk content magically appeared. maybe it's that easy...

That's an EU 'digital single market' thing. You should be able to access your home library in any EU country as opposed to their local library, as it used to work on netflix.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17187910/netflix-european-users-home-catalog-traveling

We had to implement a slightly mad implementation of this where you could access the content in every EU country but England.

[a duncandisorderly]

That's an EU 'digital single market' thing. You should be able to access your home library in any EU country as opposed to their local library, as it used to work on netflix.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17187910/netflix-european-users-home-catalog-traveling

We had to implement a slightly mad implementation of this where you could access the content in every EU country but England.

ah- putting the IT into brexit?

[NoSleep]

Breaks IT

[Sebastian Cobb]

ah- putting the IT into brexit?

Nah, that's probably pretty easy 'cos you just remove UK from the list of allowed countries (and IP ranges) you serve content to.

Although the EU rights ruling let us show things to [premium subscribers in] Europe we still had to honour the rights regarding who gets to show what in different UK regions.

[phantom_power]

I think it depends who you use - the US is probably better "protected" by netflix.  I can always get things like the Netherlands using NordVPN, whereas to get the US I need to use specific servers from them so it's a bit more of a faff

First of all I just used the VPN built into Opera and it worked for US content and then I used NordVPN, again just using a random US VPN and it worked fine. Maybe I just got lucky