Big_D

Ok guys, seems that GEO-IP blocking is becoming inept to a certain degree and a solution will have to be devised. I have a few ideas on the notion myself but in a nutshell this is what we as an industry are facing.

The home user here isn't our concern, but rather surfers in public places such as Internet Cafes and so forth.

With all of this being said a service is being provided to these organizations outside of the USA where the actual internet service has a United States IP range as a result of a state side proxy.

For instance, in Romania there are internet cafe's everywhere, however the internet cafe purchases its connections and so forth through a USA based company. With that being said, even tho Romania may be blocked from the site, the public user will actually be able to view the site, cams, whatever you have blocked from that country, as the entire establishment is on a USA based IP address range.

Who can be affected? Well if you are an organization that produces content outside of the USA and require that your content be unreachable from that country due to your offer to the model/models or are avoiding local publicity for unknown reasons. Asia, Eastern Europe, South America or any other of your Internet Cafe rich areas are included in this.

The only solution I can figure out is to map out these companies and make contact with them to get their leased IP address range and add them to the ranges of IP's to block.

Granted it's only in public places we are facing this, but dammit, we gotta do something about it as all content will grow harder to obtain on a much larger scale. You have to realize, most people in these countries dont have the internet at home but rather in public places, so as the country becomes more "third world" so to speak, the more people you will have accessing your content.