Geolocation Enables Internet Borders

JimRay writes: "The Washington Post's Tech site is running an interesting piece on geolocation technology and its increased use on the net. The article explains the technology as being able to locate an Internet user in the world, at least to their mother country, and then grant access based on their location. They note how television broadcasters are interested in this kind of technology to prohibit the loss of distribution rights to things like the Olympics."

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Geographic IP Location

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I almost loathe to post the URL because I don't want it to get slashdotted, but one of my favourite online utilities is:

The Net World Map

Just follow that link, type in an IP (defaults to yours), and it does a reasonably good job at locating the address.

Does anyone else have a link to another public service like that?

VisualRoute

[iGawyn]

VisualRoute provides a similar service and is normally pretty accurate.

Gawyn

NRC Research Press

[gandalf_grey]

The Research Press (Publishes 14 Canadian online science journals) is using a system that will allow only Canadian IP's access to the online journals free of charge, as a service to the Canadian Public. All others must pay a subscription fee or Pay-Per-View charge. It seems to be working out rather well (for Canadian's at least).

The first reaction might be... so what, great for Canadians.... It's great, because at least SOME of the world can access the journals freely... as opposed to nobody at all. After all, they are government sponsored publications, so the Canadian people should be able to access them freely (while still being able to recover costs through international subscription sales). Check it out at: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/journals