They are essentially equating 'business' with 'VPN provider'. On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:25 PM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@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. > > > > >
