Hulu Now Blocking VPN Users Over Piracy Concerns → Total BS...

You have to sign into Hulu to use Hulu so what difference does your current IP have to do with you having a valid account?

This is nothing more than an attempt to track site users by force of policy and not because it has any useful relevance for "privacy"

JMHO

Your login is associated with a billing address, but there are obviously ways to create a billing address elsewhere.

Hulu's licensing agreements limit distribution to the United States. It's like the region coding on a DVD: you are only supposed to play it in the region for which it was manufacturers.

Other companies have the rights to distribute some of Hulu's content outside the US. So, Hulu is technically violating those agreements if someone outside the US streams the content.

unfortunately these agreements and the delays they cause for content leaving the US. Which in some cases can be weeks or months only continues to drive piracy.

I know this is why BBC-Worldwide started releasing Doctor Who the same day globally as it does in the UK. (International dateline permitting.)

It's like the region coding on a DVD: you are only supposed to

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play it in the region for which it was manufacturers.

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...which is pretty damn stupid too.

Using an IP address to guess at a users location is really stupid and makes no sense.

Now you're talking.

IP geolocation is not perfect, but it's pretty good at determining at least in which country you happen to be.

Try this website: »www.iplocation.net/

It shows your IP geolocation from four different providers. All four are correct for my home IP address. However, only one has the exact correct location for my VPN endpoint. The other three put it in the correct state, but wrong city.

Hulu would work fine. However, Aereo also uses IP geolocation to determine whether you are in the broadcaster's reception area, so I probably couldn't use my VPN to evade their restriction.