Netflix Inc. Is Up Against Piracy Websites Who Are Stealing its Content

The streaming media service has made a call to Google, requesting it to take down these links that are infringing its copyrighted content.

Earlier in 2016, the streaming media leader, Netflix Inc. announced that it will be banning the use of virtual private network and proxies that customers uses to gain access to libraries from other regions of the world. With the help of these VPNs and proxies, users are able to fake their locations so they can be able to watch shows and movies that have not been made available in their countries.

In addition, to stop these customers from ‘stealing’ from Netflix, the streaming media giant has now started to approach Google to take down sites that pursue uploading pirated Netflix original content series and movies. This is the first time ever that the video streaming company is going an extra mile to protect its copyrighted property.

Not more than three years ago, the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings had announced that the company is not interested in going after people who pirate its content and allow customers to streaming and download it via their website. However, now it seems that most of these websites that host pirated content are taking away customers from the organization that is not even close to accept on the streaming media provider’s front.

At that time, the CEO had also started that there is some kind of torrenting going on in the world and it happens all across the globe and through that the company just gets to know what is in demand and what the customers are watching most. It is taking alternate routes to stop customers from going onto using those shady avenues and instead become a paying customer for it.

Netflix wants you to follow the system, become a paying customer and allow yourself to watch series and movies through the official service. TorrentFreak reported that Netflix has started to report thousands of websites that allow users to stream and download its content. In partnership with anti-piracy company, Vobile, the streaming media service provider has issued to take down more than 72,000 such websites that are infringing copyrights of the official service provider.

However, the company has focused on taking down a number of its top shows which include Narcos, House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. This act by the streaming media organization had only just begun in December 2015 and since then it has managed to issue thousands of notices. Its prime focus is on piracy websites which include vodlocker.com, putlocker.com and uploaded.net.

These moves by the organization has caused a mass outrage among users, however the company does not plan to stop. It’s simply at a point where it says ‘either you buy the service and watch the show or you don’t watch it at all’ which makes sense on its part since its spending millions of dollars of these original content shows. Even though it will not be able to take down all the pirated content from these piracy sites but it does believe that its increased efforts in this aspect might just help the service gain a number of new customers.