For those planning on watching the Olympics on Eurovision, it looks like they have installed a proxy detector.
While that web page is not up yet, I tested the VPN services I use on other EV streams, and they are blocked, with the message "not available in your territory", and these were servers housed in Germany and the U.K., which are EU countries.
I would imagine they are likely using BlockScript, which is an expensive, but effective proxy blocker. I know this becuase I had to put it on my website a few years ago to keep out one persistent user who just did not get the message that he was not welcome on my site. So it does not surprise me that Eurovision might deploy a program like that, especially after the use of VPNs to bypass geoblocking on the beeb's streams of London 2012 made big headlines.
How it works is that the program has a list of the IP ranges of every colocation center aroung the world that folks at BlockScript (now Blocked.com) know about, which makes virtually any VPN or proxy service useless, because they are all located in datacenters.
It also means that some residential broadband users in those countries will also not be able to watch, as some home broadband services share IP space with some datacenters.
While that web page is not up yet, I tested the VPN services I use on other EV streams, and they are blocked, with the message "not available in your territory", and these were servers housed in Germany and the U.K., which are EU countries.
I would imagine they are likely using BlockScript, which is an expensive, but effective proxy blocker. I know this becuase I had to put it on my website a few years ago to keep out one persistent user who just did not get the message that he was not welcome on my site. So it does not surprise me that Eurovision might deploy a program like that, especially after the use of VPNs to bypass geoblocking on the beeb's streams of London 2012 made big headlines.
How it works is that the program has a list of the IP ranges of every colocation center aroung the world that folks at BlockScript (now Blocked.com) know about, which makes virtually any VPN or proxy service useless, because they are all located in datacenters.
It also means that some residential broadband users in those countries will also not be able to watch, as some home broadband services share IP space with some datacenters.