Originally Posted by ThriceShy:
“This is true but you are doing so to access content you aren't entitled to and you are doing so knowing full well that is the case.
The biggest danger, of course, is that Netflix will notice and ban you but I suppose that is unlikely if they are still taking your money.
If millions of people in this country start doing it and the rights holders get wind of it then their could be trouble but realistically how many people in this country know about changing DNS?”
The right holders are still in the 20th century and just don't get that the online world has made the world smaller and that what is available in the same language, most will want to see that content as well.
The sooner its ironed out to a more global rights issue, the less money is lost from pirating or watching content by bypassing blocks to stop anyone watching a programme they wish to watch.
No doubt there are those over there that use DNS services to get access to BBC iplayer. (Can't see anyone wanting access or the rubbish on ITV player...)
It's a shame that the industry like this isn't willing to catch up. Lovefilm had ages to gain online streaming access to programming way before Netflix came about but didn't.
As for programming rights on Sky Anytime +, that should not stop another service from accessing it if it's locked to one ISP at the moment, same can be said for VM's On-Demand service.
The UK has this very weird sense of locking things away in lots of very small services that aren't available to all. It's no wonder some import from US/Australia when there is a title available there and not here.
For example there's some Australia PAL discs that have better special features than what the UK devision of a movie company can be bothered to do.
It's the content providers that need to change and get their acts together if they want to really stop this sort of bypassing to gain access to content.
If people are willing to pay for it, then there is a market to release more stuff in a particular part of the world. I'm glad Netflix has not only kicked Amazon off the sofa to do something but also with Sky to open up Anytime+ to any online provider. If Netflix didn't open up here, both of those companies would still be stagnated so to speak.
Then again I do feel that Sky has stagnated in itself, it crushes all competition and it's like Intel was way back when AMD woke it up with it's Athlon processors and again with the AMD64 processors.
Just a shame there's no actual company big enough to push Sky once more to evolve and improve itself once again. (Don't class 3D channel being enough, that's just a gimmick really.)