Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

They are essentially equating 'business' with 'VPN provider'.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:25 PM Matt Hoppes <
mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote:

> Why are "businesses" not allowed to watch HULU?
>
> On 11/19/19 1:17 PM, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:55:01AM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
> > > Doug, out of curiosity, what does Hulu do once they have classified your
> > > IP ranges as "business class"? Charge customers a different rate? Offer
> > > different content? Refuse service?
> >
> > They won't let any of my customers connect, blocking them with a
> > specific error number to reference by their support. When they do, Hulu
> > is either telling them that they are using a VPN (when we don't offer
> > any services like that), and then to whitelist them, they have to have
> > a "residential" IP address and not the "business" IP address we are
> > giving them, and won't go any further. Or they just say they can't
> > connect from the "business" IP addresses.
> >
> > If I knew why they considered my IP addresses "business" IP addresses,
> > I could possibly change something? But this seems to be an arbitrary
> > decision they changed about a week and a half ago for all my netblocks.