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