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"... to access Netflix's popular shows such as "House of cards" and "Orange is the new black" ..."

Well, these series should be the ones that you should NOT need to resort to proxies for, since they're Netflix owned content.

I wonder if Smart DNS proxy servers[1] will also be affected...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_DNS_proxy_server

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Prior to last week, Netflix did not operate in all countries. In the countries you couldn't sign up for Netflix, Netflix licensed its content to other distributors/networks to make it available locally. The content won't be available on their local Netflix service until those exclusive licenses expire. Going forward, now that Netflix is available everywhere, they won't need or want to license out their original content like that, since they can distribute it themselves.

That's a very .. factual way to put "we've made our international launch a monumental fuckup".

> Well, these series should be the ones that you should NOT need to resort to proxies for, since they're Netflix owned content.

Except Netflix offered exclusive licenses for them to some local tv networks, as far as I understand.

Again the problem is cable TV. Hope it dies a quick death so we can move on to more modern channels of distribution.

So instead of cable TV I'll only be watching "This service is not available in your country" text on my home set? :P

I confirm this the case in France: the license for "House of Cards" was bought by Canal+.

...thus becoming part of the problem that affects streaming services.

>I wonder if Smart DNS proxy servers[1] will also be affected...

Why wouldn't be? Your traffic to netxflix is still being proxied, and the proxy server's IP can be trivially detected and blocked.

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