[members-discuss] My Question To All LIR Members

Matthias - I fully welcome this question to be asked and answered here.
But let me state the obvious: the rules are created by a bunch of old 
men sitting around in closed door meetings thinking about how much money 
they can collect by limiting who can see what content and who cannot. 
Its trying to play God on the modern internet, which cannot really be 
done any more. The old men writing rules and laws are so out of touch 
with modern day society its sickening.

On 2014-05-28 10:51, Mag. Matthias Šubik wrote:
> On 28.05.2014, at 11:17, Jan Marius Evang wrote:
> 
>> Interesting that RIPE don't use the RIPE data…
>> 
>> https://stat.ripe.net/93.93.98.2
>> 
>> The geoloc-frame places it in Norway while the Registry browser (on 
>> the same page) places it in US (which is correct)...
> 
> I'm not fully up with the rules, but wouldn't that need ARIN 
> IP-Numbers?
> As others have already stated, maxmind (and the geoloc-browser) try to
> provide where the USER behind an IP address is. If I have no other
> data, this is the language attribute of the browser coming from that
> IP-block.
> 
> This is what tv stations et. al. want from geolocation.
> Which might turn up the question that should have been asked in the
> first place: how do we deal in the future with a more and more
> internationalized internet, with user s demanding services as
> VPN/proxy, to reach content locked away behind an anachronistic
> geo filter?
> When I travel or work abroad, this doesn't mean I want to be locked
> out of stuff I look at every day, as in the pre-internet era. As a
> user, I don't care who promised what when signing a content deal,
> maybe 30 years ago.
> 
> Matthias
> ps: this question is not to be answered here, as this would become 
> off-topic.
> 
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