3 articles tagged “Compliance”.
Video, music, sports and e-book licences are usually sold per territory, so services check where viewers are. In the EU, paying subscribers who travel must keep their home catalogue, and an IP check alone can't establish where they live. How to build both rules correctly.
Detecting EU visitors by IP to show a cookie banner only where it's needed is common. Whether it's safe depends on where your business is established, and the code has to fail the right way. What the law says, and how to build it.
Blocking a country by IP is a few lines of code. Doing it so that it holds up legally, doesn't wreck your search visibility and fails safely when a lookup goes wrong takes more thought. Code in five runtimes, plus the EU rules you need to know.
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