I am not familiar with this.  Can this be done within Canada.  The site
has to think that I am accessing it from Canada.


On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 10:17 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Mark Wallace wrote:
> > The Canadian Broadcasting Company and CTV are two web sites that won't
> > let me stream because they can tell that I am not in Canada, regardless
> > of what regional and language options I set on my Windows or Linux,
> > install.  They only own the rights to the shows within Canada, and try
> > to sell the shows to US cable channels, giving them a vested interest in
> > respecting what rights they do and don't have.
> 
> This is where a VPS and a password or source-IP protected Squid install come 
> in quite handy.
> 
> I'm happily using a VPS server in UK so I can have ready access to a ton of 
> shows I quite like. :-)
> 
> $15.00/month or so in order to be able to stream Beeb content? Done deal.
> 
> Cheers,
> D
> 
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