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drhyde (1683)
Friday November 30, 2001
11:18 AM
I'm doing bad things
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I am collaborating with those eeeeeevil people who want to restrict what you can watch. Specifically, as part of my work, I need to figger out a way of limiting streaming media to people in specific countries. You and I know that this is impossible, and, surprisingly, the rights owners seem to have paid attention when they were told this and will be happy with 90% accuracy.
I have a very rough alpha version of software for doing the IP-to-country resolving. Please play with it by telnetting to plough.barnyard.co.uk port 2323. Right now it only knows about addresses assigned by RIPE. I'd be grateful for any bug reports.
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Or is it a BUG?"
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Aha, they got you too! (Score:1)
They asked me to do this while I worked at the BBC too. I told them no, and then left.
Personally I think it goes against everything the BBC stands for (well, what they stand for in my head, probably doesn't go against their mission statement). But what can you do.
Geo::IP (Score:2)
http://maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/ [maxmind.com]
to get the data file, then download this
http://maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/perl/ [maxmind.com]
to get the perl api (requires the data file)
-matt