Opinion: Is Netflix's region-locking a losing battle?

Netflix proxyNetflix yesterday announced it was about to get tough with the big bad proxy people and, in the next couple of weeks, it would be doing what practically no other service has been able to do: block VPN users.Because of the increasingly global nature of Netflix's video streaming service there are a huge number of licensing hoops the company has to jump through in order to get certain shows and movies playing in different countries.The internet may well be a global thing, but media is