[bluedino]

Not likely as a common workaround was streaming over a VPN service or SSH tunnel.

[jtbayly]

No, that still makes sense. They limit the bandwidth to/from a particular domain. The VPN hides that. SSL doesn't.

[franga2000]

That actually makes it more likely. They're limiting speed to certain IP ranges, corresponding to streaming provider servers. If you connect via a tunnel, the destination address is different and therefore your traffic isn't throtteled.

[rahimnathwani]

They could throttle bandwidth selectively, based on destination IP address range.

[Mindwipe]

In Netflix's case they don't even need that, the content will be coming from an OpenConnect cache in their premises.