If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access a website only to be told that it's unavailable in your country, you've been geo-blocked. Geo-blocking is a common practice on the internet and restricts access to everything from online stores to streaming video content. Such Geographical blocking is a way of restricting access to online content based on a user's geographic location. Geo-blocking works on all content types, including websites and web services, but it's most notable for video content. Table Of Content: How Geo-Blocking works Purpose of Geo-Blocking Video & Digital Content How is geo-block implemented? Common ways of…
GEO restrict video
Set IP Geo restriction on videos via API/Dashboard: VdoCipher DRM
VdoCipher provides a complete DRM with encryption, backend licensing and viewer specific watermarking to safeguard video content. Sometimes owing to the rights and permissions to distribute a video, businesses look to white-list or blacklist content for certain geographies & IPs. Here is an API guide to do IP & Geo restriction for your VdoCipher account. This should allow you to configure any complicated setting of IP and country restrictions. Rules are defined by a JSON string called rule-set. This JSON contains an array of rule objects: Every rule is an object containing action, ipSet and countrySet Each matching rule overrides the previous matching rule.…