Netflix has already begun locking out some Australian customers who circumvent its geographical blocks to access content from overseas catalogues, just days after it announced a crackdown on the practice. Melbourne-based service uFlix, which configures a user's DNS settings and IP address to make it look as if they are connecting from a different country, said a small number of its customers had received notices from the popular streaming service telling them to switch off their unblocking service. "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy," Netflix said to its customers, according to uFlix. "Please turn off any of these services and try again." uFlix said the crackdown had so far reached only "a few users", but that it expected the number to grow in the next few days. "The blocking is currently not aggressive and we believe [for the moment] they are only testing the new blocking methods on their customers," uFlix managing director Peter Dujan said. 
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