Does anyone know how this affects foreigners? A relative of mine is a pilot and flies to Dubai a few times a month usually. She always uses a VPN to watch Netflix while she's there. Is she at risk?
Netflix has blocked VPNs for at least a few months now. Unless she uses VPNs for other things, she won't be using one anyway.
Just to be clear, one can setup OpenVPN on their home network (I have it running on my dd-wrt router). So, Netflix has taken measures to prevent usage of VPN services, but not VPNs, per se.