Enjoyed a lot of movies, goofy comedies, gritty war movies and documentaries on Netflix.
Problem is that netflix does not like to stream movies outside of US.
May be Netflix co. does (I was a genuine paying Customer!) but some laws come into picture, literally.
Hotspot shield seemed to be working initially but Netflix seemed to have detected it finally.
It worked for a few days, but then i started to get an error after launching the movie "You cannot watch this movie from this location...".
I could browse their catalog without any problem, which suggest me that their webserver could not detect my location. Quite obvisouly since http://www.ip2location.com/ did show my ip to be coming from US (After hotspot shield was connected).
Now, It suggest me that Silverlight somehow detected my local geographic presence and sent that information to the streaming server. Which quite obviously mismatched.
To rule out this, I tried using Ultrasurf (which is another private VPN, but the bandwidth is bad). This worked like a charm! But watching movies with 'your computer has slowed down, buffering' every 10 mins was a pain.
My Second theory is that Netflix has banned some proxy servers of Hotspot. Naturally they would be having a server farm, with some loadbalancing and initially I was lucky to get one proxy which was not yet banned!
Sooner or later, they caught up, finally...Finally, I had to cancel my membership with Netflix. Can't keep paying $7.99 per month..
As they say, Enjoy it until it lasts...
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