Starlink makes this kind of detection a real mess. They're using CGNAT so many people share a single IP address. Also that IP address changes frequently, about once a day? And the addresses don't geolocate very well, either.
Starlink customers definitely have a problem with Hulu already; their system does not work at all well with people whose IP addresses change frequently. I wonder if Netflix is about to start being a problem too.
The link there is about live TV on Hulu - the right for live TV packages are significantly more complicated than just regular streaming, due to sports contracts that are often VERY geo-specific, with much finer granularity than the other country-level stuff. So the streaming companies are pushed to do finer and finer levels of monitoring.
I keep my "cable" subscription streaming service (when I even have one) separate from any other content I watch for that reason. Don't want it fucking up more than it has to.
I agree that TV rights are a complicated business problem. But Youtube TV managed to solve it in a way that doesn't just break for some bizarre technical reason most TV viewers don't understand.
Starlink customers definitely have a problem with Hulu already; their system does not work at all well with people whose IP addresses change frequently. I wonder if Netflix is about to start being a problem too.
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