> They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year.
At first, I thought this meant Netflix banning all use of VPN for streaming. Searching news articles shows in fact a Rogers VP rep had called on the government to outright ban VPN universally[1], but this was back in spring 2015. You are saying this has actually been made law and is enforced?
How did this pass when major corporations require VPNs, and I presume also government officials use it for sensitive communications?
This is _insane_ if it actually happens .. a move I want to compare to China, except here it's the government bending to the will of a corporation, not the other way around!
Dumb stuff is proposed all the time in US proposals[1,2] but with great effort they get rejected (not all, sadly).
You may have to find a manual solution. Have you tried spawning a VPS in the US and connecting to it via Shadowsocks?[1] I apparently can sign up for an account when routed through such a setup and Netflix doesn't seem to think it's a VPN (this was a VPS hosted in Germany, however). I can give more details if interested.
Do you then have to create a separate account "from the US"?
Netflix made sense when we could watch movies from any countries, not just the US. A lot of smaller countries would have movies not available in US/Canada but still in English.
Also: I'm happy to pay for content, but if I have to hack my way around to the point that it's harder than pirating...
> They are the one responsible for the great Proxy/VPN banning this year.
At first, I thought this meant Netflix banning all use of VPN for streaming. Searching news articles shows in fact a Rogers VP rep had called on the government to outright ban VPN universally[1], but this was back in spring 2015. You are saying this has actually been made law and is enforced?
How did this pass when major corporations require VPNs, and I presume also government officials use it for sensitive communications?
[1] http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/carriers/rogers/rogers-governme...