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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by toyg on Monday July 31, 2023 @07:33PM (#36950339)
Because every house has a single, unchangeable IP...?

You clearly never worked in an ISP.

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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by robertlagrant on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:51AM (#36953864)
I definitely did not work at an ISP. But what I said doesn't require a static IP per house. Just GeoIP so non-UK residents are treated differently (unless they VPN).
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Re:BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decen... by toyg on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:25AM (#36955110)
The target is not to determine whether the client is in the UK, but whether the client is a specific license-payer or at a specific address. GeoIP doesn't help to get either of those datapoints.
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