So Netflix has banned people using VPN in Europe to access their service. This movement can be kindly described as "stupid", for a variety of reasons. To begin, we talk about closing your paying customers.
The Reddit thread on Netflix action is positively fuming. It is currently not clear what countries are affected by this - there are reports from many places in Europe. Other places do not seem to be affected. This is particularly silent as low Net neutrality regulation expected to be signed into law in Europe, which has been described as - and I do not make this up -. "Mandatory Roaming Fees for Netflix"
it is conceivable that Netflix does not work that way, but is constrained by Hollywood and other back players who still think they run Internet. If so, they are shooting themselves in both feet and reloading. The same Reddit thread is full of people pulling a soft sigh and essentially say "ohwell, back to torrenting". (. What is illegal, as cannabis, which almost everyone under 40 do anyway, like torrenting)
Therefore, we will make that point again: the stop on the VPN traffic does not deter piracy. It excludes paying customers who want to access the service they paid in a form they prefer. This movement dissuades to pay, and moves using torrenting. This kind of stupid behavior has been consistent from the copyright industry since the advent of the cassette, so it has their fingerprints all over.
In addition, this scaremongering around the VPN users is against-productive for Civil Rights. Especially in Europe, which is still plagued by phantom of the Directive on data retention, people have a very legitimate reason to thwart government attempts to continuously monitor all of their behavior - which articles they read news and in what order, their dating habits, what they buy, what they think about the purchase, but eventually not purchase and so on. Punishing your users to worry about their fundamental rights seems ... well, again, silly.
But even if it was for peer-to-peer technologies and the unauthorized production of copies, that the war was lost long ago. We are now in a time with the Bluetooth version 4 when mobile phones were between 32 and 64 gigabytes of storage. This means that a person can carry the equivalent of all the currently playing music, and constantly share in a mesh network - with everyone at the same subway car on the same coffee - completely untraceably. While these tools do not exist today, it is simply a matter of necessity - if necessary, they would be coded weeks then, more copies would happen in visual range
So how it would be. be? . Not really, actually
Before the Internet, when people copy using floppy disks and walk in the houses of each other to make copies, it took three days - 72 hours - for some desirable thing to reach everyone who wanted it. I know because I was there. This is the best person trying to prevent the use of the Internet can never expect, and it seems, again, silly.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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