Their midlife crises which they ' re suffering . <| sep |> Except it kinda is how it works . It ' s not as simple as ' 1337 h 4 x 0 r tip # 7 restart ur router to get new IP and dodge the feds ', but dynamic WANIPs are a thing . It ' s almost impossible to get a static one in the UK as a residential customer . Also sites don ' t like to ban IPs in these dynamic blocks because it gives a bad user experience for the next user that gets that IP . All of a sudden they are banned from their favourite sites for no reason other than their IP automatically changed to a blacklisted one . These blocks are pretty well documented as antispam services use them to disincentivise malware from running SMTP servers on residential computers by just blocking any email with a source IP in these blocks amongst other methods .