I've never paid much attention to the abilities to filter traffic because I 
didn't care what my customers were doing until which time a lawful order told 
me to care.

Someone recently asked me that since there was only one legal way in a 
particular country to consume television service over IP, was there any way to 
block the "illegal" streams. I put "illegal" in quotes because some of it 
really is the pirated crap, but some is likely just watching Netflix, Prime, 
Hulu, etc. over a VPN.

With the tooling I have, no, I can't block that stuff. Well, at least not with 
any precision. I'd certainly miss a bunch and there would be a bunch of 
collateral damage. However, I also know that I'm not using overly sophisticated 
tooling or methods to achieve this.

Are there platforms out there that can accomplish this with any precision?

No, I don't know what constitutes "TV" in that jurisdiction, nor do I ask this 
group to weigh in on that. Are YouTube, Vimeo, and Rumble "TV"? Are Netflix and 
Prime "TV"?



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com


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