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Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

Patrick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:50:32 -0000

Hulu can only be watched in the US or from a US IP address. Use Hotspot Shield, a free vpn program, that works on Macs and PCs to get around the restriction. Go here for more information: http://patricksoon.blogspot...

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

oakweb — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:03:40 -0000

Oh and make sure you get a VPN provider that does unlimited bandwidth, www.strongvpn.com does but you have to ask. You don't want to run up a huge bandwidth bill.

I find my VPN more and more useful for situations such as this.

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

oakweb — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:01:59 -0000

I was blocked as well, and this is very unfortunate for consumers outside the USA. I do believe that in order to comply with licenses it's important for companies to do what they can to keep costs low. There are more restrictions with licenses being written into many developed sites like this now everyday.

I'm a American that lives overseas and enjoys online gaming and also great music and TV sites like hulu and Pandora. When this happens I can say it's quite devastating since I really don't have access to entertainment that others do. It's unfortunate you can't simply give them a ID or something to prove your American :)

I was able to get back on the site by using a American VPN service like http://www.strongvpn.com or http://www.vpnaccounts.com . With VPN services these blockages are bypassed thankfully. But it sucks I have to pay more to see these sites now.

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Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

great idea — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:01:11 -0000

NBC keeps getting lamer and lamer

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

BRIX — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:04:07 -0000

Ever heard of cable? It's that little box on the TV that comes with the internet access.

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

jon burg — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:09:14 -0000

It's still in BETA! Can we calm down?

Beta is meant to be a testing/sampling mode. Since when do we expect beta to mean - invite only sampling?

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

Swaroop — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:32:40 -0000

""I went to hulu, hit "view page source". It said:

Made in India

So that explains most of the uhhhh, "problems" they're having. ""

I'd wonder why your "Sassh" says the same.. ! Get your facts right before you comment on a General topic..

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

Swaroop — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:10:09 -0000

I'd wonder why your "Sassh" says the same.. ! Get your facts right before you comment on a General topic.. !

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

WheelSee — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:14:02 -0000

NBC keeps getting lamer and lamer...first pulling their content off of iTunes then YouTube...and then pulling this lame HuLa crap...I try to watch your shows NBC but you wont let me

-wC

Oh and Heroes has sucked so far this year!

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

Pete — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:27:31 -0000

"Also, Mark, for the next hulu article could you do a step by step comparison of hulu and Torrentspy? "

This is actually a good idea: wanna try this Mark?

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

FakePeteCashmore — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:37 -0000

I went to hulu, hit "view page source". It said:

Made in India

So that explains most of the uhhhh, "problems" they're having.

Also, Mark, for the next hulu article could you do a step by step comparison of hulu and Torrentspy?

I really don't think they could have picked a better name than "hulu", because it sounds like "hooligan", and hooligans are totally sweet.

It also means something else See for yourself...
http://www.contentinople.co...

Re: Hulu: Blocked Outside the US, Broken Inside the US

Pete — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:20:36 -0000

And I thought I had a lot of email piling up. ;)