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Originally Posted by Kushan
Can does not mean will. It would cost a fortune to police every single VPN and proxy out there.
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It could be done largely automatically with a minion to review and click the button.
Any time multiple connections are coming from different Netflix IDs on the same IP can raise eyebrows. Those connections coming from a datacentre ups the confidence level some more and the odds of a false positive can be reduced as residential IP pools are easy enough to find.
Using trials or even brief subscriptions to the VPNs to obtain endpoints is another possibility.
None of this requires massive technical skill or expensive and for a company of Netflix's size a full time compliance minion verifying the reports the security team generate shouldn't be a big deal.
It hasn't been done because Netflix haven't felt the need to get serious about it, much as the BBC haven't gotten serious on people using VPNs to view iPlayer. If the people they purchase rights from lean on them enough they'll get it sorted.
EDIT: Think about it this way - block the 'big' boys and people jump ship. Suddenly a new bunch of IP addresses start connecting en masse with lots of different Netflix IDs and appear in the reports. Repeat with the new outlier. Keep on going.