How do they know where I am?
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JoshLake (
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February 12th, 2009
I live in Mexico, and I’m trying to download a movie from iTunes, to be all legal and such. They keep stopping the download because I don’t live in the States. How do they know where I am, and can I fool them? Or are they omniscient?
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Probably through your ip address.
your IP address identifies where you are connecting to the internet from.
but yes, they are omniscient.
Yeah, I figured. Is there any way to mask or change mine so it looks like I’m in Tuluth, or somewhere else where one is allowed to enjoy the wealth of visual media we create in the States since we neither have to hunt nor gather?
The government implanted a tracking device inside you when you were just a baby. Coincidentally, it just happens to be able to sync up with any type of electronic device(s) in your general vicinity such as cell phones, laptop and desktop computers, iPods, PDA’s, and things of this sort. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
By the way, I have an implant much like yours so you’re not alone in this. Keep the faith.
@Bluefreedom shhh…the pancakes might hear!
@JoshLake mmmyeah, not really. unless you’re really l33t, in which case i doubt you’d be asking this question. so, sorry.
@Bluefreedom Should I cut my teeth out, then?
@eponymoushipster I’m going to assume that l33t is some kind of code for what Ben is, and just assume that I am out of luck. Just another way to keep the Mexicans down. Curse you Steve Jobs, and your electric fence too.
@JoshLake most definitely what Ben is. As for Steve Jobs, he didn’t create the fence, but he’s maintaining it.
They also use the billing address associated with your credit card numbers. It’s easy to alter your IP address—routing it over something like Tor is trivial—but very hard to get your credit card to lie about your billing address, and very hard to get a credit card billed to an address you don’t live at.
@JoshLake. I don’t think it’s in the teeth. I’m still looking for mine. So far, an MRI, X-rays, and a CAT scan have found nothing to this point.
@eponymoushipster. That sounds heinous just reading it. And it’s making me squirm. Stop it. :o)
My credit card bills to the states. I’m not a native Mexicano. I just need my IP to do the same, and being as I’m not a l33t como Ben, I don’t know how to work such magic. Tor is a large peak somewhere?
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