Do you live outside of the United States? Ever wanted to watch the latest TV shows, movie trailer exclusives, surf exclusive content that is geared towards the US market? Well at my old job before I left that’s what I was able to do. I had a VPN setup as well as a US proxy allowing me, located in Canada, to surf freely on US sites and watch online TV while I was “working”. As readers may or may not know, a small group of us writers are located in Canada with the rest scattered in the US. So it royally sucks when we can’t see the latest MTV video, for example the Chester French video that Allicia posted the other day, or I have to find video content that’s friendly for international readers.
Long story short I figured I’d do some research this morning to see how I could possibly set something up at home easily and quickly and surf whatever site I wanted and passing that knowledge onto you the readers so that we’re all playing on an equal field. That research brought me to a TechCrunch article seen here. The article directs you to a software called “HotSpot Shield“, which “is a plugin for Windows or OS X that offers a free VPN service. There is a catch, it rather annoyingly adds a banner ad to the top of every page you visit, but at the ultimate price point of $0.”
I thought “what the hell, I ain’t got nothing to lose”. Within literally 30 seconds the application was downloaded and installed. To quickly test it I went to the Chester French video that Allicia posted and viola, not convinced I went to Hulu and viola. All is well. So! My international web surfing friends lets all rejoice as we now get to enjoy some of the luxuries our fellow Americans have been enjoying the last little while, online televison.
Source: TechCrunch
February 4th, 2009 at 8:57 am
FINALLY!!!
Great find. I can finally watch SNL clips freely.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:00 am
[...] that I’ve figured out how to watch Hulu outside of the United States, read that article here, I’ve been non-stop catching up on some of my favorite shows online [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 8:39 am
[...] Pretty amazing right? I went online to search for old episodes and well, I found the whole series on Hulu.com and have since been catching up on them. It’s actually pretty refreshing, because of shit I didn’t necessarily understand as a kid, I do now. For Canadians, here how you can access Hulu, read here. [...]
April 30th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
As of Apiril 30 2009. This option no longer seems to work. Bummer.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:47 am
not sure about that, cus it works for me.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:41 am
It doesnt work, it sez that you are accesing hulu in a vpn, therefore you cant watch its contents
May 15th, 2009 at 8:46 am
looks like they’ve caught on now.