Copyright and Geo-IP failure
I live in Canada. The current Winter Olympics of 2010 are in Vancouver B.C. which last time I checked was in Canada. According to NBC I am not permitted to view the Olympics due to Copyright. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C. Canada is restricted to viewers within the United States.
Of course I was able to view the videos. Amazing what you can accomplish with a simple proxy plus some software to save the video to disk for normal viewing. This is the Olympics – where the world comes together to compete share and all that. Yet there is copyright being applied nationally. Just silly. Geo-IP is silly as well for this type of enforcement. When it comes to content delivery networks, Geo-IP is very beneficial to delivering data efficiently, but its use for copyright between borders needs to go away.
