Re: Filtering "Illegal" Video

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

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


'With precision' being the operative phrase, then no. Plenty of stuff out
there that can do things in this space, but all of it is brute force or
kludgy methods.



On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:

> 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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