RE: Filtering "Illegal" Video

[Kevin McCormick <kmccormick () mdtc net>]

Might want to look at Audible Magic.

https://www.audiblemagic.com/

They do identification and filtering of copyrighted content.

University I worked at had a box that would identify students pirating content and would then black hole their IP 
addresses.

Helped the University avoid receiving and processing DMCA notices.

Thank you,

Kevin McCormick

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I've never paid much attention to the abilities to filter traffic because I didn't care what my customers were doing 
until which time a lawful order told me to care.

Someone recently asked me that since there was only one legal way in a particular country to consume television service 
over IP, was there any way to block the "illegal" streams. I put "illegal" in quotes because some of it really is the 
pirated crap, but some is likely just watching Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc. over a VPN.

With the tooling I have, no, I can't block that stuff. Well, at least not with any precision. I'd certainly miss a 
bunch and there would be a bunch of collateral damage. However, I also know that I'm not using overly sophisticated 
tooling or methods to achieve this.

Are there platforms out there that can accomplish this with any precision?

No, I don't know what constitutes "TV" in that jurisdiction, nor do I ask this group to weigh in on that. Are YouTube, 
Vimeo, and Rumble "TV"? Are Netflix and Prime "TV"?



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest-IX
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