From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Location Detection Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:51:51 +0800 Message-ID: <200604190151.k3J1pplp004219@skyinet.net> Reply-To: heisspf@skyinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux Hi, During the recent Winter Olympic I tried to open the videos for it offered by a website station. It was not possible, instead a site opened telling me that for whatever reasons I am not allowed access since I am not within the European area. Questions: How do they know where I possibly am? Can that be overridden and how? Thanks & regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs