Once upon a time, Laszlo H <[email protected]> said: > So if we only used it for pre-filling but always asked to confirm, > it would be no problem. The problem is taking somebody else's word > over the user's or even the ISP's.
The problem is largely the traditional media companies of various types trying to continue to apply cable-TV-centric geographical limitations to streaming. Whether it's a streaming provider only having rights to show a movie in certain countries or live sports streams being limited to certain cities, it's inherently an adversarial action, where the streaming company cannot trust the attempted viewer. It's a never-ending match-up between streamers/GeoIP companies and viewers and VPN providers, with lots of legitimate would-be viewers blocked out from things they should have access to but GeoIP has wrong data. I remember trying to explain why geographic boundaries and network boundaries were not connected to a marketing person in the 1990s, nothing has really changed, but there's big money in pretending it has. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VGH5HCZQ4QBPOX2K3GGPUG5NXT5P3T3Q/
