How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders 206
colinneagle writes "Living in the U.S., one of my greatest regrets is that I can't watch BBC video with iPlayer. If I were living in the U.K., I'd feel the same away about not being able to watch shows on Hulu. But, with a Web proxy or a virtual private network (VPN) and an IP address in a country where the content is available, you can watch these shows. Technically, it's easy to set your browser up to use a Web proxy or VPN software. With a Web proxy and Windows XP, for example, you just go to Internet Options, click the Connections tab, and then click LAN Settings. Next, under Proxy server you click to select the 'Use a proxy server for your LAN' check box. Finally, you enter the IP address of the proxy server and in the Port box, type the IP number that is used by the proxy server for client connections—that's usually 8080. It's usually pretty simple to do that in any browser and operating system. There are also programs, such as Proxy Switchy, for Chrome that makes it easy to switch from one proxy to another in a single session. When you use a proxy, though, all your traffic is still open to network administrators. If you want to visit another country and watch their TV in privacy, you'll need a VPN."
Is that news? (Score:5, Insightful)
Really?
Since when is SlashDot a how-to site? (Score:3, Insightful)
Next thing you know we'll have all the bullshit that goes along with ask.com and ehow.
Re:Since when is SlashDot a how-to site? (Score:5, Insightful)
Next thing you know we'll have all the bullshit that goes along with ask.com and ehow.
Slashdot's official mission is "News for nerds", I think that this qualifies. During a major event like the Olympics a common complaint amongst techies and non-techies alike is that they are unable to view coverage because of their location. This is informing people that their is technology that enables users to bypass the restriction. I clicked on the story and read the comments because I found it interesting.
Or just use Bittorrent (Score:2, Insightful)
If you're going to steal BBC Video (since you never paid the TV tax), then you might as well do it the easy method and just do a torrent download.
To be honest though I've not really found much on BBC I wanted to watch. "Doctor Who" and "BBC News" is the only thing that comes to mind and both of those I can get legally (via Syfy or PBS). Plus there are other alternatives like France24, NNK-japan, and RT which come free through my antenna.
Attention know-it-alls (Score:5, Insightful)
Some people might find this useful, so let's not get too carried away with our technical superiority. If you don't find the story informative, don't read it.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people on messageboards will weight in on a topic that they're not interested in just to say "I'm not interested in this topic." On /. we seem to have people who do nothing but post inane comments about how they're not interested in a particular story, usually in the Idle section. I find it amusing because clicking two buttons to post a reply was an even bigger waste of their time than the few seconds they spent reading the summary.
Re:Is that news? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is that news? (Score:4, Insightful)
The billion-dollar institutions can easily get their VPN's whitelisted while the rest of us suffer. Don't think for a minute that Citibank's fate is tied to yours.