The “easy” way to watch Hulu if you’re not awesome enough to reside the You Ess of ‘ey is to connect through an anonymous proxy that made it look like you were connecting from inside the US. That doesn’t work anymore, since Hulu is now blocking anonymous proxies.
First Boxee, now this. [TechCrunch]
matt
May 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM
good to see they’ve completely missed the point of the internet
Report PermalinkMike
May 7, 2009 at 10:18 AM
The problem here is the excessive use of the anonymous proxy by the masses. I use another method to download region restricted content, but it involves a hosted VPS for around US $8 per month (100GB transfer) and some unix knowledge (ie; proxy setup). This might be a bit advanced, but I imagine some gizmodians out there are already visualizing the win.
VPSlink is reliable and cheap for this, and as long as you dont give your proxy access out to the masses, you wont get blocked.
Report Permalinkadrian
May 7, 2009 at 1:41 PM
what’s hulu? why do we care?
Report PermalinkDean
May 7, 2009 at 7:15 PM
More like I’m too awesome to live in the USA.
Report Permalink1AM
May 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Smacks of inequality in my opinion. The whole argument of licence control seems to fall flat when weighed against the end result of people going with bit-torrent instead. Since they cant price gouge money from anyone external to the US they block it instead..nice one
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