Re: Filtering "Illegal" Video

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

More than one vendor has claimed to be able to do this. I have been under the weather the past week, so I haven't been 
able to have conversations with the rest.

However, the one I talked to more or less has a team whose purpose is to search out the content as if you were a user, 
build a signature, and push the signature out. Obviously, that won't stop individual Plex, FTP, etc. servers, but it 
sounds like it goes by the 90/10 rule. If you make it hard enough, most people will give up.



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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net>
To: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2025 2:57:46 PM
Subject: Filtering "Illegal" Video

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
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com