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Geolocation - is it rubbish
stevebrass:
Sorry - Missing the point here. Hollywood?
Dray:
Piracy perhaps? Watching movies without paying?
d2d4j:
Hi
From a billing platform/hosting/email we use geo ip to ban/place in fraud check/greylist/allow, and we are not interested in the users precise location, just region/country
Many thanks
John
Weaver:
Apologies, I meant that in the movies characters perform instant geolocation lookups which are always of course 100% accurate and which reveal exactly where some target machine is. And all this despite the possible use of NAT too.
sevenlayermuddle:
I don't think it is just movies. For anybody willing to pay, the data is available, for real.
But why should NAT matter? Surely it only affects what is seen by the home router, the IP addfess seen by the outside world will be that of the subscriber, regardless of NAT, will it not?
The '?' marks are genuine, lest they appear presumptuous, I am always willing to be (sometimes easily) persuaded that I am wrong. :)
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