In our case, it think, a US student in our halls of residence had given her login details to her brother in the US. She logged in to Netflix in the UK, and then her brother later on in the evening from the US. I guess using geo-locating tools they came to the conclusion that this could not be possible, so she “must” be using a proxy to hide her location. Rather than a specific IP block, they blocked a large swathe of IPs that happened to be in our proxy pools, so that blocked around 7500 students. They were not happy ☺
Neil From: uknof [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Mansfield Sent: 22 August 2018 17:04 To: Chris Russell <cruse1977...@gmail.com> Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Netflix Contact On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 14:37 Chris Russell, <cruse1977...@gmail.com<mailto:cruse1977...@gmail.com>> wrote: From other feedback, seeing a number of people been hit by this recently, so just trying to understand what makes netflix believe these are VPN's or proxies and we can do to try and help each other ... There's a rather dodgy vpn "service" called Hola. AIUI, its a p2p system so that if you use it to access the USA, someone else can tunnel through you to get to, say, the UK. Could you have some well connected customers running Hola, and others are accessing BBC iPlayer and UK Netflix through them?
