Why are "businesses" not allowed to watch HULU?

On 11/19/19 1:17 PM, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:55:01AM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote:
>> Doug, out of curiosity, what does Hulu do once they have classified your
>> IP ranges as "business class"? Charge customers a different rate? Offer
>> different content? Refuse service?
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> They won't let any of my customers connect, blocking them with a
> specific error number to reference by their support. When they do, Hulu
> is either telling them that they are using a VPN (when we don't offer
> any services like that), and then to whitelist them, they have to have
> a "residential" IP address and not the "business" IP address we are
> giving them, and won't go any further. Or they just say they can't
> connect from the "business" IP addresses.
>
> If I knew why they considered my IP addresses "business" IP addresses,
> I could possibly change something? But this seems to be an arbitrary
> decision they changed about a week and a half ago for all my netblocks.
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