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Geo-blocking: Jamming a Square Peg Into a Round Hole

When many individuals attempted to watch the recent World Cup games online, depending on where they were located and from which website they tried to view them, they may have found the following statement on their screen: "The requested video cannot be displayed in your region" rather than the game itself. That pop-up message was due to "geo-blocking" or "geo-fencing."