mi nuh too get it still, if you a go post a video/song to the web why u a go restrict ppl from certain geographical location from watching/listening it makes no sense.
never got that before suh mi caan really answer the question.....but mi nuh see how it mek sense to restrict ppl geographically from watchin certain videos
It's because of IP area restriction. Just like how each specific country or Island around the world has a specific area code, so does IP addresses that are lease from your service provider also has a specific IP address range. Videos from video hosting sights restrict users from viewing video simply because they want to make more money.
From my knowledge, its all about video hosting, funding and copyright issues. For some sites (like those that stream movies); they sometimes block those in the minority as they provide less traffic and video hosting is expensive. Its like owning s store, where people buy mostly rice, the store owner will buy rice to satisfy his customers and pay little attention to flour.
Copyright issues:
BBC has mentioned the reason behind region filtering on their official BBC Channel Because of the way that the BBC is funded in the UK through the licence fee, we cannot make videos available outside of the UK.
Similarly the Olympic Games channel on YouTube (youtube.com/beijing2008) is blocked in countries like US because NBC has a deal to stream Olympic Games Live in those countries.
From my knowledge, its all about video hosting, funding and copyright issues. For some sites (like those that stream movies); they sometimes block those in the minority as they provide less traffic and video hosting is expensive. Its like owning s store, where people buy mostly rice, the store owner will buy rice to satisfy his customers and pay little attention to flour.
Copyright issues:
BBC has mentioned the reason behind region filtering on their official BBC Channel Because of the way that the BBC is funded in the UK through the licence fee, we cannot make videos available outside of the UK.
Similarly the Olympic Games channel on YouTube (youtube.com/beijing2008) is blocked in countries like US because NBC has a deal to stream Olympic Games Live in those countries.