> (How they get them in the first place I'm not sure).
I don't work for Netflix or Hulu. But why couldn't staff there just sign up for VPN services, log in, note the IP address(es) in use and then block those?
Buying a monthly subscription to a few VPN providers seems like a cheap and easy way to solve this.
> I know I can buy my own VPS and tunnel through that
It would be pretty easy for a provider to block access from a VPS. Data center providers have well known blocks of IP addresses, which are static, and it's pretty unlikely that there are any actually humans in a data center watching Netflix.
It would be pretty trivial for Netflix to decide to block certain IP ranges they know to be used by VPS providers to prevent this.
I don't work for Netflix or Hulu. But why couldn't staff there just sign up for VPN services, log in, note the IP address(es) in use and then block those?
Buying a monthly subscription to a few VPN providers seems like a cheap and easy way to solve this.
> I know I can buy my own VPS and tunnel through that
It would be pretty easy for a provider to block access from a VPS. Data center providers have well known blocks of IP addresses, which are static, and it's pretty unlikely that there are any actually humans in a data center watching Netflix.
It would be pretty trivial for Netflix to decide to block certain IP ranges they know to be used by VPS providers to prevent this.