Why is content different based on source IP? On Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 1:47 PM Joe Greco <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 01:23:44PM -0400, Josh Luthman via NANOG wrote: > > Keep in mind the companies don't want to go through the hassle, it's the > > copyright legislation that's the foundation of all this mess. > > Well, feel free to hate on copyright legislation with my blessing, but > that's just not accurate. Businesses have a legitimate reason for > wanting to be able to understand location, which ranges from technostuff > like network path optimization to more mundane stuff like fraud risk > analysis for financial transactions. I don't think there's anything > in copyright legislation that requires IP location mapping, but certainly > there are contractual obligations for distribution "zones"; the classic > example of this would probably be the way that physical discs may have > limitations on them for which geographical area of the world they are > supposed to be limited to. The foundation of THAT is really financial, > as content is priced according to what the economy of a geographical area > is likely to be able to tolerate. > > Whether or not companies want to go through the hassle of self-identifying > the geoloc of their IP's is another matter. If you want to look at the > problem from the reverse lens, Netflix could legitimately claim to be > ticked off that it is so hard for them because a third party, the ISP, is > failing to provide reasonable information about the location of their > endpoints. So this gets complicated quickly now that we have four parties > involved, Netflix, ipinsight, ISPco, and sad end user. Could possibly > implicate ARIN/RIR's in there too. > > ... JG > -- > Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net > "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its > way > through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that > democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your > knowledge.'"-Asimov > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TBW4RN4NOPYBJTK5VFJ4BMVYKVAKC4JY/
