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After taking action against people using VPNs and proxies, Netflix is engaged in enhanced efforts to stop users accessing geo-blocked content. According to several reports, Netflix is now blocking users who use IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel brokers, even when doing so legitimately.

 

It used to be a little talked about secret but the fact that all Netflix users aren’t treated equally is now well and truly out of the bag.

Due to licensing deals with content providers, most regions in the world are granted access to differing levels of content. Users in the United States get the best deal from a choice perspective while subscribers in many other regions are offered much more shallow libraries.

 

However, for many years determined subscribers from all over the world have been using various tricks to gain access to the forbidden fruits of the U.S. Netflix library. This has largely been achieved through the use of VPNs and proxies, techniques which worked almost flawlessly until complaints from rightsholders forced Netflix into a crackdown earlier this year.

 

Nevertheless, other methods to circumvent Netflix blocks do exist. Some savvy individuals have been using something known as a tunnel broker, an online service which provides the user with a network tunnel. One particular type, known as an IPv6 tunnel broker, provides users with a modern IPv6 tunnel to sites via the much older (but massively more prevalent) IPv4 protocol.

 

One such service is provided free of charge by Hurricane Electric, the operator of the world’s largest IPv6 transit network. Called simply ‘IPv6 Tunnel Broker‘, the company describes the service as follows.

 

“Our free tunnel broker service enables you to reach the IPv6 Internet by tunneling over existing IPv4 connections from your IPv6 enabled host or router to one of our IPv6 routers. Our tunnel service is oriented towards developers and experimenters that want a stable tunnel platform,” Hurricane explains.

 

With noble goals at heart, this service is clearly not designed to give Netflix headaches. However, with tunnel endpoints in the United States that was apparently the net result, with people using the service able to access titles geo-restricted to the U.S.

 

Somehow this situation came to Netflix’s attention and during the past few days the company decided to take action. Numerous reports indicate that Netflix has now blocked users of Hurricane Electric’s tunnel broker from accessing its services, regardless of their intent. They now receive the message below.

 

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A Reddit user called KeiroD contacted Netflix after receiving an identical message with the same error code – M7111-1331-5059. From the transcript of the discussion its clear that KeiroD already had a good idea why he was blocked.

 

“The only thing that I can think of that would affect us would be using the Hurricane Electric tunnelbroker but we’re US-based as is Hurricane Electric’s tunnel,” he explained. Netflix responded as expected.

 

“Yes it is possible as they work the same as the VPN or proxies. There is a way to find out if that is the reason, do you have a way to turn it off for a moment so we can try the service again?” customer support asked.

 

In response KeiroD turned off IPv6 in his router’s tunnel broker setup, rebooted, and played a random movie successfully.

General blocking aside, the sad part here is that KeiroD is based in the United States, so already had access to U.S. content on Netflix. The fact that his account with Netflix was registered in the United States and his endpoint was in Kansas City didn’t help at all.

 

Interestingly, the topic is also under discussion in Hurricane Electric’s forums. After years of people questioning whether he had access to the U.S. version of Netflix, a Canadian user there reported that his Netflix suddenly stopped working a few days ago.

 

“Turns out that I did [have the U.S. Netflix] and didn’t even know it! Now Netflix is blocking me, and after a long while I finally figured out that it was because of my IPv6 tunnel. The thing is though, I am in Canada, and I use the tunnel server in Toronto, also in Canada, but Netflix detects my connections as coming from the US!” he explains.

 

“Well of course this problem only affects traffic coming over the IPv6 tunnel. If I shut it down, then Netflix works fine over native IPv4. I obviously still want my IPv6 connectivity, and don’t have any easy way that I know of to specifically block only Netflix-related traffic from resolving IPv6 addresses and using the tunnel.”

 

Sadly, however, Hurricane say they can’t help.

“Our [subnet] is registered as part of a US company, and that is the address space being used there. We do not have any IPv6 allocations allocated and designated as ‘Canada’,” a senior Hurricane engineer responded.

 

“Our [subnet] is used globally, as-is. If Netflix has some sort of whitelisting system in place, perhaps the ranges used there can be submitted, if such a whitelist exists, Netflix willing.”

As an avid supporter of IPv6, Netflix’s decision to block Hurricane users is somewhat disappointing, especially when they have U.S. accounts and are also based in the U.S.

 

Understandably the company is responding to pressure from rightsholders but interestingly there’s no change in the current situation even when they aren’t a factor. Netflix previously indicated it wanted to improve licensing issues by creating its own shows, shows that can be accessed anywhere in the world without issues. But even they are off-limits, it seems.

 

“This started happening to me this afternoon. Called Netflix support, and based on that conversation I concluded they consider Tunnelbroker a VPN/Proxy,” another user on HE’s forums explains.

 

“They’re not wrong, but it’s still frustrating. Ironically the show I was trying to resume is a Netflix original. I wouldn’t have expected that there would be licensing issues on their own content.”

 

And so the whac-a-mole continues….

 

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heyyahblah

Netflix can go to hell with all this VPN and geo blocking tactics. I hope that POS company crumbles.

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1 minute ago, heyyahblah said:

Netflix can go to hell with all this VPN and geo blocking tactics. I hope that POS company crumbles.

All there doing is driving people back to piracy  many people who buy netfilx are pirates if you read the comments at torrent freak .  All the hassle they go trough trying to get around Netfilx there favorite show can be downloaded are streamed else were very easy. Netfilx dont have nothing to do with filesharing by the way  it's a paid service  that you buy.

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1 hour ago, steven36 said:

All there doing is driving people back to piracy  many people who buy netfilx are pirates if you read the comments at torrent freak .  All the hassle they go trough trying to get around Netfilx there favorite show can be downloaded are streamed else were very easy. Netfilx dont have nothing to do with filesharing by the way  it's a paid service  that you buy.

 

This is exactly the problem. I had free vpn's that stopped working and my paid VPN couldn't even get through, I was getting blocked. So I said f**k it to them in their comments and cancelled my subscription. When they asked my feedback I clearly told them why, you geo-blocked me so you became useless. I'm looking into IPTV now instead, but couldn't even be bothered. Netshit had it's chance and they blew it. So screw them, I'm not going back.

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LeetPirate

I feel the same way, the geo blocking is forcing me to use torrents and revert to a life of piracy. And to top it off, Netflix sends me an email to say my plan price is changing to US$9.99, so now I have to pay more for the shitty pool of 3rd world movies with forced Spanish and Portuguese audio. Stupid racist company thinks every country in the Caribbean is Spanish or Portuguese and that's the main reason I was forced to use VPN. 

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1 hour ago, TheDevilInMe said:

Netflix isn't the only site blocking proxies, and VPN's.  Nsane blocks TOR based browsers from browsing this site.

 

I prefer ghosting across the internet. A spectre surfing the 'net. 


TOR is used these days to DDOS sites, so that's why Nsane staff block it, or use a private node that is not blacklisted in Nsane's list.

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1 hour ago, TheDevilInMe said:

Netflix isn't the only site blocking proxies, and VPN's.  Nsane blocks TOR based browsers from browsing this site.

 

I prefer ghosting across the internet. A spectre surfing the 'net. 

So does Google , Startpage and all sites that use CloudFlare CDN   ,Many Many Tor Ips on many Blacklist databases  for Spam  and Botnets  also on forums always ban members  use it to abuse sites.

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knowledge-Spammer

this Netflix  bs i am sure can be bypassed so we not see the bs about blocking proxies, and VPN's

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knowledge-Spammer

ps u people no this netfix was fixed sometime ago with cheat-codes-

https://medium.com/@unblock.com/netflix-cheat-codes-the-open-sesame-of-entertainment-7fb0b75a847f#.ktldzlswe

 

http://zap2it.com/2016/01/secret-netflix-codes-unlock-hidden-categories/

 

You could host your own VPN on a router with a powerful third-party firmware like DD-WRT or OpenWRT, or you could do it on a dedicated home server. We’ve gone through the instructions for both in this guide. You could also set up an SSH server, and use an SSH tunnel.

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1 hour ago, TheDevilInMe said:

It's pointless posting new proxy and VPN updates on this site, since some anonymous Internet service / software users are prevented from entering Nsane. 

 

Isn't TOR a 'Frontpage' update? Promoting software that Nsane users can't even browse this site with is a contradiction. 

 

Anyways; these days bad guys / gals are using VPN's, and other newer anonymous online surfing methods for performing their dastardly deeds.

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its working here i have no problem  when i tested it?

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heyyahblah

Why would anyone use TOR to anonymize themselves from nsanedown? I love this website, its honest, trustworthy, you guys review the software and patches and cracks to make sure no one uploads stupid shit, and quite frankly the forum community for the most part is very friendly and helpful, even the mods are not dicks.

 

I like this place, its actually friendly, compared to other boards. W10 fanboiis at tenforums.com blocked me for stating facts and opinions on W10. Perm ban also, lmao. Pathetic bunch of wankers on that site.

 

At least this place is cool. :D I leave my ad-block off at nsanedown so they get revenue from me b/c this place deserves to be online. This community has saved me $100's of dollars on software alone, so thank you guys for that!!!

 

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10 minutes ago, heyyahblah said:

Why would anyone use TOR to anonymize themselves from nsanedown?


My VPN is like my underwear  i put them on every day  i dont use it to keep nsane from knowing who i am , i use it because its no ones business but mine . Lol i got two vpn on right now  ,  You're ISP could block TOR if they really wanted  unless you use bridges and the brigde could still be a honeypot  so i never would use tor  without a vpn  I  dont trust it lol  .

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heyyahblah
1 hour ago, steven36 said:


My VPN is like my underwear  i put them on every day 

LMFAO :D

 

I hope you put your underwear on everyday, LMFAO .... best comment I read all day

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hellosunshine260

yeah fuck NF. I can get past the geoblocking easily, what I cant get past is the crap they are offering. They should pay US to watch THEM.

 

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