Geoblocking is the Future:1

Since the internet was invented people have been trying to make tools to keep it safe or follow proper legislation; the newest tool is geoblocking. Geoblocking is a technique that is used to make sure that only people from a certain region are accessing a certain website, for example an online casino. That sounds like a great idea, the only problem is that the world has so many different ways that domains are set up that it is hard to standardize a system to be able to geographically block the content on the internet. Online casinos and other websites pay big money for their websites to be licensed and they probably do not mind that people from different regions can access their websites. The more the merrier is usually the way e-commerce businesses operate.

Goeblocking is necessary in order to avoid citizens of certain countries to have access to illegal content such as an online casino. The Canadian Research Chair of Internet and e-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist said that there needs to be a tool to help people avoid legal problems in their jurisdictions. The way that this software works is that the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address is determined when the user tries to access a website. Every computer has their own IP address and when they are connected to the internet it is their form of identification, whether it belongs to a corporation or an individual, everyone has an IP address. The number does not necessarily always stay the same, however.