I am not 100% sure on this. It’s gotten really muddled up because these new ISP companies have spun up and started to create “package IPTV” deals.
Although they also illegally provide other countries TV services (Sky Sports, BT Sports, etc) through their package.
Instead of sending me a takedown request, they seem to have resulted to just banning competitors. It just does not seem right for an ISP company to have this kill-switch privilege.
Well it gets weird. Some of the TV channels here are registered here, but they hire lawyers from states to deal with “competitors” outside the country. So i get the odd DCMA request from a US lawyer for a company registered in Albania/Kosovo. I’m not even sure how that works, but I have complied with them.
Unfortunately I am here only with a phone. Although I have tried it on multiple friends phones whom live here on mobile and broadband wifi connection, same result.
Also installed a trace route app and it just defaults to 0.0.0.0
My domain and same sever IP have been up for over 5 years
Thank you for this. I will definitely contact them.
Just common sense says an ISP should not be banning competitor domains.
Actually I will reach out to the ISP 1st to absolutely confirm the reason for the blockage. If I get no response then I’ll contact the above authority.
Houses are build here 1st, then planning permission is requested. Things do not really abide by law very much. It’s slowly getting better, but lots of work to be done.
Funnily, external countries are my main audience and provide the best source of income due to Ads being more valuable. However, I just feel let down by my own country for allowing a cheap DNS block trick like this.
I re-transcode them via my server for better quality and speed. Most of the TV channels themselves have reached out to me and asked me to re-stream their channel because it costs a lot. I have always complied with all takedown DCMA requests rapidly, not many, when they do come through.
I’ll explore this option. I also know that Vodafone is a big network carrier here, so I’ll check if they rent out their service to these ISP companies. If they do, then it’ll be easier for me to communicate with Vodafone.
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