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Google offers one of the world’s fastest DNS servers, so it makes sense for Netflix to be testing it with their app. The company also stated they experienced a similar issue with the PlayStation 3 several years ago.

This theory is in line with Netflix’s statement about the issue, explaining nothing has changed regarding the company’s policy towards VPN/DNS services, but not going so far as to outright deny that they might be testing ways to prevent subscribers from using them.

“Virtually crossing borders to use Netflix is a violation of our terms of use because of content licensing restrictions. We employ industry standard measures to prevent this kind of use. There haven’t been any recent changes to the Netflix VPN policy or terms of use,” said Netflix’s statement.

Unblock-Us, as well as other VPN and DNS services, have already found workarounds for this issue involving blocking specific DNS addresses on the user’s router.

“Smart DNS is an important service that provides Security, Privacy and helps promote Internet Freedom. We are confident that we will continue providing the quality service as we have for the last four years,” said Unblock-Us in a statement.

Unblock-Us and its parent company Netprotect Inc. were originally founded in Toronto but the company recently moved its operations to Barbados a few years ago due to pending legislation that requires all VPN services to keep a record of their customers for six months.

As of Jan. 1 the final part of Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act went into effect and all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and website hosts are now required to relay copyright infringement allegations to their customers.