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Once upon a time, the web was pretty open and accessible. You could wander about scarcely coming across a blocked URL or password limited newsgroup. In fact I can still remember being asked for an username and password the very first time when I tried to telnet onto the University of Wales library system. Of course things change and one thing which is very clear with the development of the internet is an increasing commercialism. Wherever you turn you're tracked and monitored, adverts are notably annoying occupying side bars with merchandises that you have previously looked at. I am now being followed every where online by adverts for leather jackets after foolishly clicking on one that looked good. After all most of us spend an awful lot of time online, itis not actually astonishing. We pay our bills, organise our affairs, go shopping and even see movies and TV also. This clearly means that there is a great deal of money to be made and most big companies now have wide-ranging web sites which generate an awful lot of revenue. Just like in the real world, slowly we've seen profit maximising disperse throughout the digital world too. You'll see it everywhere, for instance when high street stores will bill more in specific towns and cities depending on typical income. A Big Mac in London will typically be more pricey than one in Liverpool for example. You may think that this is hard to do in a digital world, after all aren't we all identical? The fact is that in some ways it's really even easier to split up marketplaces online than it is in the actual universe. All you need to do is some factor to recognize each customer and a system to relay them based on that advice. What's normally done is to target products depending on the place of the consumer. This is very simple to do by looking up the visitors IP address and recording. By using this info you can offer distinct merchandises, or different costs depending on their place. Companies typically will split up based on the country of origin at the very least but many go even further and will offer different prices on special places. The world of online amusement is even more prohibitive, well at least in case you utilize the official sites. Most place a restriction on accessing their content from outside their home country. This practice is growing incredibly quickly, you'll see lots of messages about - this video is not available in your country on all the most popular global sites. Ever been blocked from access a video or an enormous media site like Hulu or the BBC? this video - to see ways to view the BBC iPlayer or any media website wherever you're everywhere, USA or Spain.
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