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Beware: Netflix Can Cancel Your Service
If You Watch Via A VPN
If You Watch Via A VPN
BGR News
Brad Reed
Eagle-eyed Redditor CrypticCraig recently noticed that Netflix’s terms of service now state that it “may terminate or restrict your use of our service, without compensation or notice if you are, or if we suspect that you are… engaged in illegal or improper use of the service.”
The key here is the word “improper,” since although it’s perfectly legal to watch Netflix over a VPN, the company still discourages it because its terms of service say users “may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service primarily within the country in which you have established your account and only in geographic locations where we offer our service and have licensed such movie or TV show.” Thus, using a VPN to fool Netflix into thinking you live somewhere else would constitute “improper” use of the service.
Netflix confirmed to CrypticCraig that “Netflix opposes the use of VPNs,” so it really does retain the right to cancel your service if you use one.
That said, just because Netflix has the right to cancel your service if you use it via a VPN, that doesn’t mean it will do so. This could just be a way for Netflix to cover its own legal bases and please movie and TV studios, even though it has no intention of actually cancelling users’ services for VPN use.
Nonetheless, it’s something to keep in mind if you like using a VPN to get unauthorized access to international Netflix offerings.
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