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Comment by stanleydrew | Hacker News Reader

This is not a terribly difficult restriction to get around:

    1) Boot an ec2 instance in VA, US
    2) ssh -D 8888 <ec2hostname>
    3) Configure Chrome/FF to use a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8888

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Quoting the old Erlang meme: did you just tell me to go ---- myself?

Seriously. I won't jump through hoops to give others my money, broken copyright or not. I don't see a huge push by those companies to change the way things are. Wheres the lobbying for a global copyright or easier access rules? Where are the visible changes? As long as all those efforts don't lead to a change, they won't have my business.

Yes, Bob, I think he did.

I don't think you should pay them. I certainly don't. I was merely pointing out how I've been able to watch Hulu content while traveling outside the US.

I am not able to use Hulu (wrong country), but don't they at least have a travel mode? Spotify has one, for example.

How would you be giving Hulu any of your money when the shows are free to watch?

http://www.hulu.com/plus

I know about Hulu Plus, but the subject of this particular discussion is their (free) website redesign.

You know what's even easier than that? BitTorrent.

I'm already using a VPN in the US to handle that (Netflix), but they reject my credit card (french one). Any idea of a workaround ?

EDIT : typo

You could try purchasing a prepaid Visa, Mastercard, or American Express gift card online and have it shipped to you. I see that amazon.com has various prepaid gift cards. Another option I'd be less excited about is a "reloadable" (i.e. Green Dot) debit card. I believe most US issued reloadable cards require a social security number however.

I think you can buy a US gift card[1] and use that instead. I haven't tried it, so don't quote me on it ;)

[1] - https://www311.americanexpress.com/BOLWeb/bolfeOrder.do?requ...

I was successful with a prepaid credit card with US dollar as the currency. Just go to entropay.com, create a credit card and put some money on it.

Are you willing to wait "6 to 8 weeks?"

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/21/3257144/bitinstant-bitcoin...

If you think that any one of those three steps is not far beyond the technical ability of most hulu users, you're dreaming.

And probably also beyond a lot of Hacker News readers' technical ability.

This is an interesting comment. I take it for granted that the majority of readers are pretty comfortable doing that kind of thing. Is there any way of telling what the real distribution is?

I doubt it. Maybe a survey. I'm one out of three. I could set up a socks proxy in chrome. As for the others, I'm sure I could learn them, but I have no idea where to start.

Have you actually tried? Can you pay for Hulu with a non-US credit card?

nice.

why down voting this? I just said nice.

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