On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:21:56PM -0400, Mark Wallace wrote:
> I know that the Canadian TV networks can tell that I am not in
> Canada by the backbone.  They only have the rights to stream some of
> their programs in Canada and changing the settings in Linux to try
> to convince them that I am in Toronto doesn't help.

This is easily determined by your IP.

You need to find a proxy in canada, AND set up something like tsocks to
wrap all calls from firefox into a proxy.  Flash does NOT obey proxy
settings.

-m

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