More than one vendor has claimed to be able to do this. I have been under the weather the past week, so I haven't been able to have conversations with the rest.
However, the one I talked to more or less has a team whose purpose is to search out the content as if you were a user, build a signature, and push the signature out. Obviously, that won't stop individual Plex, FTP, etc. servers, but it sounds like it goes by the 90/10 rule. If you make it hard enough, most people will give up. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2025 2:57:46 PM Subject: Filtering "Illegal" Video 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"? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com
