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AFAICT, if a Netflix account owner sets up a VPN for their household, then anyone sharing the account who routes their Netflix traffic through that VPN would appear to be accessing Netflix from that household's WAN IP address.

Is anyone doing this? Is it really that simple or are there more challenges?

EDIT: We get it, you like torrenting. Let's keep comments on topic folks.

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[–] Xulai@mander.xyz 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why go through the hassle?

Set up Jellyfin and use your VPN to fill it with whatever you’re wanting to pay corporate overlords for.

You’ve paid for the IP already from the years of subscriptions. At this point they’re just draining everyone dry. Stop letting them.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Seems like the user is setting up a local VPN. Kinda weird that term now seems to mean a corporate VPN run with someone else's servers.