Speaking of CYA documentation…
July 28, 2010On page 84 of the June 2010 issue of Australian Personal Computer magazine was an article titled ‘How to surf privately (and watch O/S TV)’. (O/S = overseas)
It seems that Australians can’t watch TV programs on the BBC iPlayer website or through Hulu in the US (among others). Equally, those in the US cannot watch iView programs on the Australian ABC’s website. It’s something to do with digital rights and the detection of IP addresses from various countries. So this article described how to get around these restrictions using various Proxy and VPN services.
However, I suspect that giving these sorts of instructions is probably borderline legal, so the article concluded with this outstanding piece of CYA (cover your a**) writing:
We must stress that we don’t condone Australians accessing content that is restricted to them, but we are concerned that British or US visitors to Australia are unable to watch their favourite shows on the BBC’s iPlayer of the US network’s Hulu service.
Classic!
(The full article is online here: http://apcmag.com/how-to-watch-hulu-bbc-iplayer-and-more-in-australia.htm)
[Links last checked July 2010]
Thanks for posting this. Having recently come to Australia from the UK this is useful information. However, I find that the internet here is quite slow, especially when accessing overseas sites. It is sometimes difficult to sustain a Skype video conversation let alone stream television.