Monday 3 July 2017

Watching American Netflix Outside USA

Netflix is the biggest phenomena in the video streaming arena, since YouTube. It offers live sports, movies and TV shows on the internet, as per the user demand. One can watch whatever he wants as long as he pays the subscription fee. However, there is a restriction.

Netflix categorise certain TV shows and movies for certain countries only. For example, if a movie is marked only for American users, no British user can really watch it. For Netflix, judging the user is simple as well. The IP of the user everything to Netflix. This leads to another weird situation. A verified American user can't watch his favourite TV shows if he is vacationing in UK. People, legit users of Netflix wonder how to watch American Netflix, especially when they are out of the country. The simple answer is, use a VPN.

VPN stands for virtual private network and it creates a layer of obscurity between the Netflix server and the user. It channels everything through its own server so there is no direct communication between the user and Netflix. Instead, Netflix sees someone else, the VPN server in actuality, is accessing the TV shows. Now, if the VPN server is located in the USA, Netflix would assume that a normal user from USA is trying to access contents which are marked for American users only and it will have no problem is allowing the access.

The only consideration here would be to use a VPN service which has a server in the USA. That's it.

0 comments:

Post a Comment