On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Flamsmark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:02, Brian Mearns <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bao song <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Some time ago (2008) I read about a Canadian who used Tor to view Hulu. >> > >> > I tried it from outside the US, and it worked, but the speed was too >> > slow for me to use it regularly. Today, a clip from Hulu was highly >> > recommended by the New York Times, so I tried again: Hulu now tries to >> > block >> > all attempts to connect via Tor. I tried two US exits, and both were >> > blocked. >> > >> > Of course, the idea of Tor is NOT to allow people to watch high >> > bandwidth commercial videos restricted to US audiences, but to allow people >> > who need privacy to obtain it. >> [clip] >> >> You seem to understand the burden such activities place on the Tor >> network, in which case I'm curious what reason one might have for >> accessing Hulu anonymously? (Genuine question, not a snide comment) >> > If such material (western TV) is deemed inappropriate by the local > authorities, then you wouldn't want them to know that you were accessing it. > It might not be of life-or-death importance that you did manage to access it > for entertainment, but you would nonetheless desire anonymity. [clip]
Understood, thank you for informing me. =) -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net
