Geo blocking video (or geo-restriction) is the practice of restricting access to online video content based on a user’s geographic location. If you’ve ever seen the message “This video is not available in your country,” you’ve encountered geo blocking. Content providers use this technique to control where their videos can be viewed, often to comply with licensing agreements, local laws, or business strategies. In this updated 2025 guide, we understand into why geo-blocking matters, how it works (covering IP-based, GPS-based, and DNS-based methods), tools and services to implement it, how to tackle VPNs and proxies in video streaming. Table Of…
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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.…