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I'd image they'd just block access to anyone connecting from a Datacenter/Cloud Provider, using a dataset like this one https://github.com/client9/ipcat https:/

I'd image they'd just block access to anyone connecting from a Datacenter/Cloud Provider, using a dataset like this one https://github.com/client9/ipcat https://github.com/client9/ipcat. I'm sure there are more complete paid for datasets out there - probably from someone like https://www.maxmind.com https://www.maxmind.com. That would likely block 95% or more of the VPN/proxies out there. It will probably be a bit of a whack a mole approach to the get the rest but you'll get pretty fed up signing up to some obscure and possibly slow/expensive vpn provider to find it blocked 2 days later. What's actually interesting is that they are now openly admitting that they have been turning a blind eye to this before when 1. it's relatively simple and 2. it has always been a requirement of the content rights holders.

lsaferite 11y ago
That will also catch a lot of legit users that use a VPN to avoid ISP snooping as well. Edit: Apparently I've been working on AWS VPCs so long I no longer remember how to spell VPN
goatforce5 11y ago
> That would likely block 95% or more of the VPN/proxies out there. And that's probably good enough. I imagine (but have zero proof) that they need to be seen to be taking reasonable efforts to stop out-of-region people from accessing their services, rather than having some system that absolutely blocks 100% of out-of-region accesses.