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Author Topic: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion  (Read 4696 times)

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Pieter

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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2007, 01:18:58 PM »
I did pick a proxy that was from the USA. I heard that they also check your timezone, so I had to change that, but I didn't work.
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2007, 05:30:21 PM »
Man, that really bugs me now what they are using to verify your location. Timezone was pretty clever and I would have never thought about that, but now I am really stumped. It's almost like their tracking you. :)
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2007, 06:40:31 PM »
What about browser?  Does IE have regional builds like Firefox does?
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2007, 07:32:55 AM »
You bring up an interesting point. If I remember correctly, I also tried accessing the site with the English version of IE6 on Linux (there's some kind of wrapper program that will allow you to do that). I could be wrong of course.
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2007, 11:12:27 AM »
COuld the ISP push some kind of geolocational data with the individual data packets?
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2007, 07:08:57 PM »
Quote from: Fx Extension Guru on March 19, 2007, 06:40:31 PM
What about browser?  Does IE have regional builds like Firefox does?
I'm sure IE does have regional settings depending on what language of Windows a user installs. And that is a statistic available, but then that makes me wonder whether they could use that. It would essentially discriminate against people in the United States who are using an operating system of a different language...which would be pretty stupid.


Quote from: Nogg3r5 on March 20, 2007, 11:12:27 AM
COuld the ISP push some kind of geolocational data with the individual data packets?
That sounds a little underhanded, but I guess an ISP could do that.
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Re: Viacom sues YouTube for $1 billion
« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2007, 01:03:13 AM »
Its not really underhanded. Not if the location is that of the ISP, not the user.
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