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Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:49:02 -0500
If I, as a UK citizen, buy region 2 DVDs at home, take them on my trip to the US and watch them on my laptop, no-one is screaming that I'm violating someone's geographic distribution rights by doing so. If a US citizen is paying for Hulu, from a US billing address, on a US credit card, but happens to be watching from their hotel in Italy, why does anyone care?
Hulu probably doesn't. But many content owners are still riding that Region Locking Hype Train in the face of all the available evidence that it doesn't really do anything but create a nuisance. And they do pretty much have you over the barrel, since you likely don't have another option. On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 5:34 AM tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 November, 2019 21:25, "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us> said:This is why you don't go after Hulu. You go after the content owners who conspired to compel Hulu to limit distribution in a way that tortiously interferes with your contract with your eyeball customers.Am I the only one who's baffled in the context of a paid service why so much focus is put on where the consumption takes place (hard), and so little on where the transaction take place (easy)? I understand, even if I don't necessarily always agree with, market segmentation, differentiated pricing, accurate P&L for different business units, etc, that mean for example if you're a US citizen you need to pay Disney US the prevailing US price to watch Disney content, but if you're an EU citizen you need to pay Disney EMEA the prevailing EU price to watch Disney content. Surely that transaction is the thing content creators and distributors care about? If I, as a UK citizen, buy region 2 DVDs at home, take them on my trip to the US and watch them on my laptop, no-one is screaming that I'm violating someone's geographic distribution rights by doing so. If a US citizen is paying for Hulu, from a US billing address, on a US credit card, but happens to be watching from their hotel in Italy, why does anyone care? I can see why it's different and more complicated for content that's provided free but geo-constrained (e.g. BBC iPlayer), but IP geolocation for paid services seems a terrible waste of time and effort on both sides. Or am I woefully naive, and it's actually trivial for a non-US resident to come up with a US credit card and billing address to pay for the service? Regards, Tim.
Current thread:
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?, (continued)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Tom Beecher (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Owen DeLong (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Blake Hudson (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Owen DeLong (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Brandon Martin (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Owen DeLong (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? William Herrin (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Ethan O'Toole (Nov 20)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? tim () pelican org (Nov 21)
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- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? tim () pelican org (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Tom Beecher (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Blake Hudson (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? William Herrin (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Crist Clark (Nov 21)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Mike Lewinski (Nov 22)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Blake Hudson (Nov 22)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Nov 22)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Owen DeLong (Nov 22)
- Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them? Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG (Nov 23)
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