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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
It's a lot easier than you think. All IP addresses are allocated to specific countries and specific entities in that country by global, then regional regulatory authorities. Nobody can simply pick an IP out of the air and use it.
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And yet, every single IP database out there has errors and omissions in it.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Again, all IPs must be officially registered with the relevant regulatory body. Allocations are usually done in blocks, and information on who owns what block is freely available from the regulators. Once you find an offending body it's trivial to list every IP that company is allowed to use and ban them all.
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Yet they couldn't even do that with the pirate bay?
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
An IP address also identifies the company that owns it.
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Which is not necessarily the company that's
using it.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I disagree. If they were lazy they could just whitelist the major US ISPs and block everything else.
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And block thousands and thousands of legitimate customers. Plus that would sort of go against the whole net-neutrality thing.