Foreign Content How-to September 14, 2009
Posted by mycto in Browsers, Infrastructure, music, software, video.add a comment
Let’s say that you live in the UK, or France, or Canada and you want to be able to access www.pandora.com (who wouldn’t–it serves up great music for free). Unfortunately, sites like Pandora or Hulu have very restrictive content policies. Essentially, unless you have an IP address that these systems recognize as belonging in the country that they are in, you will receive a page or message that says something like: “Thanks for visiting, but this content is not available in your region”. There is not even a way to PAY for the info or data.
I recently discovered a great service from www.hidemynet.com. This service, which costs less than 20 cents a day, enables you to use a proxy server that the company provides in the US, the UK and Germany. Wishing that you could watch F1 racing from the US? Get a UK-based IP address.
The instructions are very straightforward. I was up and running in minutes and enjoying content from around the world–not just in my back yard.
