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NZCoderGuy:insane: No, was actually pulled by the old owners before the ISP was sold, had nothing to do with the new/current owners at all.
I'm un-sure as to the situation now - does anyone have any evidence of either or?
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nickb800:Aaroona: So what services exactly does this open us up to? The text itself is vague, either that, or I am being dense.
Are we talking about things like Hulu for example?
If they never promise specific services, then they can't be blamed when Hulu (for instance) blocks them
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Regs:nickb800:Aaroona: So what services exactly does this open us up to? The text itself is vague, either that, or I am being dense.
Are we talking about things like Hulu for example?
If they never promise specific services, then they can't be blamed when Hulu (for instance) blocks them
why would hulu, or netflix block if they werent forced to? who will tell them what ip addresses to block? as far as they are concerned, they are limiting their service to geographic ip's as per what their contracts would state. if some other company extends the US based geoocated ip address elsewhere, then its somewhat out of their control. netflix, at least, would be making more money if there are ways to access it outside their geo regions. they probably wouldnt shut it down by choice :)
NonprayingMantis:Regs:nickb800:Aaroona: So what services exactly does this open us up to? The text itself is vague, either that, or I am being dense.
Are we talking about things like Hulu for example?
If they never promise specific services, then they can't be blamed when Hulu (for instance) blocks them
why would hulu, or netflix block if they werent forced to? who will tell them what ip addresses to block? as far as they are concerned, they are limiting their service to geographic ip's as per what their contracts would state. if some other company extends the US based geoocated ip address elsewhere, then its somewhat out of their control. netflix, at least, would be making more money if there are ways to access it outside their geo regions. they probably wouldnt shut it down by choice :)
The obvious answer would be the studios who sell content to netflix and make it a condition of the contract that netflix take reasonable precaution to only sell content to people in the regions they have licences for. Since they don't have licences for NZ, they might be required to stop selling when they become aware of people using this kind of service.
This might involve finding out what ip ranges slingshot own and blocking them completely, or it might even involve raising their authentication process to be something more bullet proof, e.g. Requiring US driving licence or dual factor authentication with a us mobile number or who know what.
Read the long post from whirlpool I posted, it explains how a standalone VPN service can get away with this whilst it will be much harder for an ISP to do it.
What slingshot has going for them in this case though is that they are relatively small and so might slip under the radar....but maybe they won't.
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worm9100: How are they going to determine people who have this enabled are following the TOS. I.E they have an international visitor staying in their house. How do they verify this? also anyone who isnt technically skilled could activate this by accident without knowing what it does when they log into their account. Are they going to call up customers and ask for proof of this visitor?
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