On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not In The USA
October 27, 2009 4:52 PM   Subscribe

If you find yourself outside of the USA and wanting to watch Hulu, outside of the UK and wanting to checkout the BBC, or wanting to rig a web poll, here are some tips A large number of web services are geographically restricted, such as Hulu, Pandora and Spotify. The reasons are usually to do with content licensing restrictions, or because US visitors (or visitors from other advanced economies) are of a higher value from a monetization perspective. A web application can only guess at the location of a visitor based on an IP address and other information, such as browser language and regional settings.
posted by jaybol (0 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Techcrunch article from three weeks ago that's only a few paragraphs long? Makes for a pretty thin post. -- mathowie



 

« Older Oh No Here We Go Again   |   Mediengruppe Telekomander Newer »


This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments