I can confirm that streaming companies don't like it any more than users or ISPs. It's all on the contractual requirements forced by the media content providers, and they even specify which geoIP companies the distribution company may use. Given the generally self-destructive state of that industry, it wouldn't surprise me, if geoIP companies ceased existing, media content providers would ban streaming altogether, lose all their viewers and go bankrupt themselves. On 28/01/2026 19:09, Chris Adams via NANOG wrote:
So if we only used it for pre-filling but always asked to confirm, it would be no problem. The problem is taking somebody else's word over the user's or even the ISP's. The problem is largely the traditional media companies of various types
Once upon a time, Laszlo H <laszlo@heliacal.net> said: trying to continue to apply cable-TV-centric geographical limitations to streaming. Whether it's a streaming provider only having rights to show a movie in certain countries or live sports streams being limited to certain cities, it's inherently an adversarial action, where the streaming company cannot trust the attempted viewer.
It's a never-ending match-up between streamers/GeoIP companies and viewers and VPN providers, with lots of legitimate would-be viewers blocked out from things they should have access to but GeoIP has wrong data.
I remember trying to explain why geographic boundaries and network boundaries were not connected to a marketing person in the 1990s, nothing has really changed, but there's big money in pretending it has.