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dbd33 May 3rd 2007 2:55 am
Re: BBC in Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 4733096)
I rather suspect it's not so much your mailing address as your IP address. Not sure of the technical details but it is possible to identify where geographically you are located from your IP details. UK based broadcasters are not going to allow you to access content if you are not in the UK due to licensing/legal issues IMHO.
It's not where you are but where your service provider is; the ip at home shows as being in Illinois. It would therefore be possible to have an ip local to the UK while being elsewhere and I suppose this is how the relay services work. It all seems rather a bother, I'd just rent the DVDs.


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