I can confirm that streaming companies don't like it any more than users
or ISPs. It's all on the contractual requirements forced by the media
content providers, and they even specify which geoIP companies the
distribution company may use.
Given the generally self-destructive state of that industry, it wouldn't
surprise me, if geoIP companies ceased existing, media content providers
would ban streaming altogether, lose all their viewers and go bankrupt
themselves.
On 28/01/2026 19:09, Chris Adams via NANOG wrote:
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.
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