Can you market outside of the country, where the ISP doesn’t have reach? Surely the product you have is valuable if the ISP feels threatened by it.
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#12Publicly freely available doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s legal for you to embed them in your website without some licensing agreement. (I’m assuming your site isn’t just a list of external links.) Just as a heads up.
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#13Get a vanity IP address like 75.74.73.72. Make up signs telling people in your town to switch their DNS to Cloudfare or Google.
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#14Publicly freely available doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s legal for you to embed them in your website without some licensing agreement. (I’m assuming your site isn’t just a list of external links.) Just as a heads up.
I re-transcode them via my server for better quality and speed. Most of the TV channels themselves have reached out to me and asked me to re-stream their channel because it costs a lot. I have always complied with all takedown DCMA requests rapidly, not many, when they do come through.
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#15Can you market outside of the country, where the ISP doesn’t have reach? Surely the product you have is valuable if the ISP feels threatened by it.
Funnily, external countries are my main audience and provide the best source of income due to Ads being more valuable. However, I just feel let down by my own country for allowing a cheap DNS block trick like this.
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#16Depending on how you built it, could you migrate it to a platform like AWS or Azure where the IPs you use are mixed up with other services?
They blocked the whole domain
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#17Isn't that a clear case of tortious interference?
Well, how experienced are you in Albanian law to come to the conclusion that it's a "clear case"?
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#18Isn't that a clear case of tortious interference?
Houses are build here 1st, then planning permission is requested. Things do not really abide by law very much. It’s slowly getting better, but lots of work to be done.
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#20Looks like this is the authority of regulation in Albania
Usually a telecom operator agrees to some specifications as part of winning the bid for the license. And usually those specifications include obligation to be neutral when transmitting data.
Try to find that spec, find the right section, and complain formally to the authority of regulation.