Recently, Turbine announced that they were going to block IP's so that players from the United States couldn't play in the European Servers, and vice versa. Luckily, Turbine has just announced that they will not be using the IP blocking. However, regional clients will only be operable with their respective regional services. A snippet is below.

Recently, some players expressed their concern about our plans to implement IP blocking. After listening to our fans, we have decided to remove IP blocking in North America.

To read the entire announcement, go here!