IP Specific access denial
I noticed a few months ago I couldn't watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show anymore either for the same reason. This is fairly common for commercial content. Some content providers who get charged for the amount of bandwidth they serve out over IP networks prefer to spend that bandwidth on markets they can actually monetize. Makes business sense to me. Kind regards, Muchiri Nyaggah | PRINCIPAL PARTNER @muchiri Cell: +254 722 506400 Skype: mrmuchiri On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:20 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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On 11/6/12 2:49 PM, Muchiri Nyaggah wrote:
I noticed a few months ago I couldn't watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show anymore either for the same reason. This is fairly common for commercial content. Some content providers who get charged for the amount of bandwidth they serve out over IP networks prefer to spend that bandwidth on markets they can actually monetize.
+1. In addition, (using BBC as an example) if you look at the BBC peering page - http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/peering/ You will see that some content providers consider their content to be localized - meaning intended for local consumption. In such a case, the content provider may wish to deliver its traffic via peering arrangements and not transit (which is expensive especially for video content due to high bandwidth requirements). Therefore if KBC wanted to broadcast its content online all they would need to do is have a connection at the local IXP (KIXP) and it is accessible by anyone within the peering networks in Kenya and East Africa as whole. Any attempt to reach the content via a non-peering network would result in a failure similar to what you have experienced. The other issue is has to do with the legal and regulatory conformity of the content to laws outside the target market. Regards, Michuki.
Hi, If I take your argument and apply it to for example facebook or google what happens when they do the month and realise that they are actually loosing money by giving those in a certain region access? Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Muchiri Nyaggah <muchiri@semacraft.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 14:49 Subject: Re: [kictanet] IP Specific access denial I noticed a few months ago I couldn't watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show anymore either for the same reason. This is fairly common for commercial content. Some content providers who get charged for the amount of bandwidth they serve out over IP networks prefer to spend that bandwidth on markets they can actually monetize. Makes business sense to me. Kind regards, Muchiri Nyaggah | PRINCIPAL PARTNER @muchiri Cell: +254 722 506400 Skype: mrmuchiri On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 10:20 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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Welcome to geocaging and the Balkanisation of the web. I am living in Germany, which is notorious for this type of blocking. A nice little Firefox problem circumvents it just fine. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-unblocker/ On Nov 6, 2012 8:36 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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Yawe, when they decide to put us on the 'wrong' side of this balkanization business, we better have an alternative :) Kind regards, Muchiri Nyaggah | PRINCIPAL PARTNER @muchiri Cell: +254 722 506400 Skype: mrmuchiri On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Alex Comninos <alex.comninos@gmail.com>wrote:
Welcome to geocaging and the Balkanisation of the web. I am living in Germany, which is notorious for this type of blocking. A nice little Firefox problem circumvents it just fine. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-unblocker/ On Nov 6, 2012 8:36 AM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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