How does BBC iPlayer detect VPN services?
I was hoping to watch the world cup with iTV and BBC, both are British based and free but geo-restricted to the UK.
I have a VPN account, but it doesn't look like BBC iPlayer works is currently blocked on their UK servers. They have this message posted on the service status - "Problems with BBC iPlayer! At the moment it’s not possible to unblock BBC iPlayer using our services. We are working to fix that. Appologies for any inconveniences!"
I did some searching around on the internet and it appears that this is a common complaint of various VPN users. I was wondering if someone knew how the BBC detected VPNs? Is their strategy to see if there are too many streams with a single or a set of IPs? If so, has someone tried setting up a VPN with an EC2 box in the London region.
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