Sometimes...
Things go wrong, it happens to us all at some point. Major pain when it happens though. Last night was the first night I have not used netflix for a week, so I managed to dodge a bullet there :D.
Netflix was struck by what appeared to be a fairly significant 90-minute outage on its streaming service late on Friday night that affected folk across Europe. The company coughed to problems with its network at around 9:30pm UK time last night. We're aware of members in Europe having trouble streaming on some devices. We …
"Obviously its because they now let Linux users natively access their service now."
Wait, What? When did this happen, and how did I miss The Reg article? Last I saw, Netflix was still using Silverlight for desktop/laptop clients. The only way to get it on Linux was to run an Android sandbox and load the app there.