Windows Media Streams don't work either. I think that the host is confirming the destination. The streams work when I am in Canada with no change in settings in the computer, because the hotel is buying it's service from a Canadian ISP, as is Starbucks.
The message that I get doesn't say that I am in the US, it just says that i appear to be outside Canada and I should call customer service if I am in Canada. Streams now a days are preceeded by a commercial. The commercial works, but the stream only gives the above message that I am outside Canada. CBC ironically, streams the news but blocks the commercials because I am outside Canada. It shows a sign that the stream will resume shortly with canned music. Then 120 seconds later, the broadcast resumes. Mark On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 10:32 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:17:26AM -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. > > It's worth noting that flash does NOT obey proxy settings in your > browser. Most people fall foul of this when they try to use a generic > proxy to stream video from another country. > > Wrapping the entire browser instance in a proxifier like tsocks or > socksify ought to trap the connect() calls and force flash to use the > proxy. > > -m > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Aug 4 - Samba > Sep 1 - BOINC > Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 Visit my Blog, Mark Wallace Following Christ, at > http://markwallacefollowingchrist.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
