Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?

Drew Weaver drew.weaver at thenap.com
Thu Dec 12 18:58:30 UTC 2019


We’ve had success contacting Hulu and having them mark the tiny range of applicable IPs as not being “cloud”.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+drew.weaver=thenap.com at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Eric Fulton
Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:37 PM
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Hulu thinks all my IP addresses are "business class", how to reach them?

This happened to us as well.  We've had probably over 100 requests over the last few years, but thankfully most of our customers are fine with just not purchasing Hulu.  We've only lost below 5 customers from this issue.

EF

Treasure State Internet & Telegraph
406.204.4777
http://tsi.io




On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 3:32 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu<mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>> wrote:


On 21/Nov/19 12:32, tim at pelican.org<mailto:tim at pelican.org> wrote:

> If I, as a UK citizen, buy region 2 DVDs at home, take them on my trip to the US and watch them on my laptop, no-one is screaming that I'm violating someone's geographic distribution rights by doing so.

They would if it was possible to track you. Whenever I played DVD's or
BD's with my PS3/PS4, I sometimes hit issue because those boxes were
online, vs. my regular DVD player which wasn't.

Offline DVD tech. is old school.

Because tracking can be done with 2019 tech. due to VoD and its use of
the Internet, they will scream.

Mark.
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