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How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders
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."
Exactly. All these guides are essentially about "how to pick up a stranger, get impregnated, and then perform an abortion with a coat hanger", followed by ramblings about the oppression that makes that illegal. It's bad enough that this crap is desirable to some. You're just making it more desirable, while giving more incentive to general lockdown of the internet, and/or introduction of real ID into it.
I'm all for civil disobedience and breaking the law. But this? FUCK THIS BULLSHIT. I'm not watching the Olympics, I'm not wired that badly, and I'm grateful for having friends who mostly don't give a fuck either -- yet every webtard and their dog has a blog post about this crap. I'm just thinking "It's bad enough you watch this shit. Don't tell me about it, I otherwise enjoyed your technical articles and personal opinions, and now you decorated those with a big fat turd."
Gah.