As we all know, Netflix has been working on tracking down everyone and every IP and VPN engine that gives their users the ability to look as though their watching from somewhere else.
This task more difficult than Netflix realized, had them reach out for help from PayPal. PayPal being one huge way people can pay for things online, has the ability to find these services that receive payment through them to get their work around VPNs.
TorrentFreak reported that PayPal sent Canadian based VPN service UnoTelly that it would no longer offer them the ability to be paid through them under "copyright infringement" grounds.
If you actually read the terms and conditions, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Engadget says that PayPal shot itself in the foot by doing this, as UnoTelly just told it's users to just pay with credit cards, which then cuts into PayPal's business. But if you look at the big picture, PayPal had already cut off their ability to earn money from UnoTelly. They weren't going to offer to accept payments for them.
So the only thing that happened is that yeah PayPal lost business, but it was business they knew they would lose by sending that message. Just their intended reaction from thay action was not also cutting largely into the groups of people using UnoTelly to watch Netflix with a catalogue of movies they wanted.
Yes, SOME people may not be able to make those credit card payments, and were probably working with PayPal so they didn't have to worry about paying with a credit card they may not have. But not all if them. So PayPal has removed some of the users, just not all that they had intended. And again, they were cutting UnoTelly off, so the business would have been lost anyway. They knew that beforehand.
Again Netflix, would it not be easier to just make the location of a person irrelevant, and offer everyone the same movies and TV shows worldwide?
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