NETFLIX is banning people who use apps to watch TV shows and movies without a proper account.
The firm is now targeting people who use a VPN on an account in one country to watch content from another.
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If you were a UK Netflix user, you would still need to sign up for an American account to watch the US version of Netflix.
This would let you watch some content that’s not available in the UK.
But some users are downloading VPNs, which trick Netflix into thinking you’re in a different country.
This can give users access to loads of Netflix shows that you don’t have a proper account for.
Netflix offers shows in different countries where it has licences to serve that content.
So Netflix needs to make sure it’s not delivering global content to you if it doesn’t have the rights to do that.
Now Torrent Freak has revealed that Netflix is now blocking home IP addresses of users who are tricking the app with a VPN.
Blocked out
Some users are also being partially banned.
This means that they’ll receive “missing content” messages – and will only be able to watch Netflix Originals.
That’s because Netflix Originals are available in every region, because Netflix owns the global rights to that content.
Speaking to Torrent Freak, a WeVPN spokesperson said: “You have hundreds of thousands of legitimate residential Netflix subscribers blocked from accessing Netflix’s local country full catalogue from their home.”
So if you’re a US Netflix subscriber watching the UK library without a UK account, you might want to reconsider.
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