Just ended up blocking 2million IP addresses we noticed that AS24940 was using VLC to capture our radio stations streams creating fake listeners.
While our analytics system does exclude them, we don’t want people recording our radio streams.
And this hosting provider has been warned in the past with a number of emails from us asking them to block it or do something.
I feel it was a bit extreme but what else could I have done?
Russell Harrower /
npub15s…nsrp6
2024-08-05 12:05:08
Author Public Key
npub15sldfw7fp38awgwthn5cd5nuvqchg49sjj7z3dwfvlwyjdl5xens0nsrp6Published at
2024-08-05 12:05:08Event JSON
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