F**k you international buddy!

AlienCowThatMoos

So I have a technological problem. In the last year or two some douche-nozzle came up with a way to put regional protection on the internet. Awesome. At first it was an annoyance; people would post links to clips of Family Guy and I'd just see this:



The old version used to say "Sorry International Buddy!"

Like AIDs this has spread through the internet. I'm now occasionally finding this on trailers for upcoming movies or TV shows. Why do advertisements shown for free to entice me to buy a product need to be "protected"? The final straw is SNL. Up until this month I could always just on NBC.com to show a buddy that awesome new MacGruber bit that he missed last night. But now even clips from SNL must be protected from us dirty Canadians or the dirtier Mexicans viewing!

So I'm thinking there's some evil technology at work here. These sites can tell where I am somehow. That said there has never been an automated check that can't be circumvented. So....... anyone know how I can break the regional protection of the internet?

PeregrineFalcon

Get a US proxy.

AlienCowThatMoos

Along the same lines, I hate what Youtube has done to funny clips on the internet. It used to be that there'd be a funny scene on the Family Guy or whatever and someone would post it on their website. Others would steal it and then it would be all over the internet. Maybe Fox would try to take it down from one website, but there'd be a hundred more spots to see it.

Now the first guy will post it on Youtube and every other website just links back to the same youtube clip. About five minutes later Youtube takes it down and now you've got a google search with hundreds of hits, all of them broken. Hurah for the internet.

AlienCowThatMoos

PeregrineFalcon wrote: »

Get a US proxy.

Where do I find such a thing?

Barcardi

i would run through digg to find ten billion posts about how the man is trying to control the internet and somehow hope that all of that posting could change the world, like a protest march in the streets but not really because oh hey world of warcraft

JamesDM

I'm going to second getting a US proxy, agree with you on the fact that people who post copyrighted material are getting lazy and add...

"...and what is the deal with airline food?"



*edit*
You could try...
http://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/
...which should allow you to view some but most likely not all US sites.

*ex2*
Nevermind, that doesn't work for steaming media.

AlienCowThatMoos

JamesDM wrote: »

I'm going to second getting a US proxy, agree with you on the fact that people who post copyrighted material are getting lazy and add...

"...and what is the deal with airline food?"

My understanding of that is that most Proxies won't let you stream video, so not that useful for my intentions. Any other options?

Barcardi

if anyone can figure out how to do this in reverse so people in america can get top gear on bbc.com i would love you

Six

Whenever I ran into this problem with mlb.com blackouts, I'd just google for an anonymous proxy outside the US and use that. Worked like a charm.

I imagine the same strategy could be used to find a US proxy and use that.

Svevin

Ya, I hate the whole regional protection thing for streams. Seriously, why do they have to region protect streams? I want to watch The Office webisodes, but I can't find any streams that work in canada. At least I can watch The Colbert Report streams on thecomedynetwork.

DeadOnArrival

Barcardi wrote: »

if anyone can figure out how to do this in reverse so people in america can get top gear on bbc.com i would love you

If you guys aren't going to grow up and share your good stuff nicely I fail to see why we should.

ilmmad

www.hidemyass.com

NickTheNewbie

Wait is there a new macgruber that i missed?

AlienCowThatMoos

ilmmad wrote: »

www.hidemyass.com

It didn't work.

Kris_xK

I hate this shit.

Comedy Central is the worst for this. Make you jump around 5 different portals to the point that when you finally find a streaming video that works in Canada, you're no longer interested in watching it.

chasehatesbears

AlienCowThatMoos wrote: »

Along the same lines, I hate what Youtube has done to funny clips on the internet. It used to be that there'd be a funny scene on the Family Guy or whatever and someone would post it on their website. Others would steal it and then it would be all over the internet. Maybe Fox would try to take it down from one website, but there'd be a hundred more spots to see it.

Now the first guy will post it on Youtube and every other website just links back to the same youtube clip. About five minutes later Youtube takes it down and now you've got a google search with hundreds of hits, all of them broken. Hurah for the internet.

They need to make a patch for this.

apotheos

We get this all the time in Canada. Much content is rehosted on the sites of the Canadian networks that picked up the shows, but stuff like SNL on NBC.com? Nope. Just fuck off if your not American.

It fucking sucks.

Tube

Not our fight.