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Originally Posted by Kushan
And yet, every single IP database out there has errors and omissions in it.
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There is only one official database.
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Yet they couldn't even do that with the pirate bay?
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They could and did - The Pirate Bay itself was blocked pretty easily. Numerous proxies sprung up which were run in different countries by different people, which poses a different sort of target than one VPN provider, and to be fair, dozens of those have been blocked now too.
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Which is not necessarily the company that's using it.
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It's the only company legally allowed to use it, bar delegation and sub-assignment which require the owner information to be updated.
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And block thousands and thousands of legitimate customers. Plus that would sort of go against the whole net-neutrality thing.
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They've already said they're perfectly happy blocking "legitimate" users sharing the same VPN. And Netflix aren't exactly glowing beacons of net neutrality, seeing as they have several premium payment arrangements with various ISPs so that their content can get delivered faster.