BBC iPlayer cracks down and blocks VPN users

[Owen Smith]

It can't be *all* VPNs since there is no way to detect from the traffic itself that it has been VPN'd (or at least you'd hope there isn't). If the blocking is by known IP addresses of commercial VPN providers then any private VPN people run themselves won't be blocked, until the BBC decides to find these and add them to the block list.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 9 Oct 2015, at 13:23, John Crisp <jcrisp at safeandsoundit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On an entirely technical point it is clearly not all VPNs - I have just
> tested with 2 different ones that I can use and neither are currently
> blocked.
> 
> Both are VPNs with endpoints I control and are not through commercial
> services. So perhaps they are just targeting the major VPN providers
> such as the one mentioned above.