<a href="http://www.mediahint.com/terms" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediahint.com/terms</a><p>"in any way that breaches terms of service or any other regulations of use of the websites you access;"<p>Look, if you want to run a site/service violating copyright agreements, do it properly and post funny replies to the DMCA requests. Or whatever. But don't try to hide behind this pathetic pseudo-legalese bs.
I've been using <a href="http://www.unblock-us.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.unblock-us.com/</a> for the last year. It's been a great service to access Netflix/Hulu.
I would assume Hulu et. al. restrict based on IP address. So is MediaHint running a large number of proxy servers? It seems this was put together at a hackathon... if so, how are they planning to get it to pay for itself?
As far as rdio is concerned, there is no requirement for a proxy server. They actually allow "US users" to travel abroad and listen to rdio. So, what you need to do is get through registration somehow.<p>That works pretty well if you:<p>a. Have a credit card with a US address<p>b. Can go through Amazon payments with a US zipcode<p>I have a credit card with a US address and therefore was able to sign up with no problems at all. Been using rdio for over a year and really enjoying it :)<p>For those that do not have a card with a US address, it's still possible to get through using one of those pre-paid debit cards/asking an American buddy to help/something else.<p>TLDR; rdio does not do IP based filtering.
So how is this any different then linking to a torrent tracker? I mean, I get it, I live in New Zealand and it sucks that our only legal option for viewing media is by paying for SKY and waiting 6 months - a year or more for shit to reach us.<p>This is still copyright infringement though, you are not authorized to view the media because you live outside the countries that these companies have the rights to broadcast to.<p>I can't help but feel this sort of shit is just to make people feel better about piracy. You may as well just be honest with yourself and go ahead and download torrents, at least then you aren't actually costing Hulu, Netflix, Pandora etc money by using their bandwidth.
What I do: Use <a href="http://netshade.com" rel="nofollow">http://netshade.com</a>, pay for the proxy service and get 4-5 high quality proxies in the US (plus some others)<p>Works like a charm for Netflix and others.
You can always just set up an SSH tunnel into an EC2 instance (or your home computer, if you don't have an EC2 account). Tell Firefox to route its traffic through your local proxy and use that for streaming.
Canadian here.<p>Pandora and Hulu flag me as a non-US resident, Rdio worked although I didn't proceed with signup. Netflix I already get but very limited compared to the US.<p>edit: nevermind I'm a dumbass. It's like unblockus I understand now.
Scary that it wants access to all websites. Is that needed?
Beyond that, I have to say it works really easy: Install the extension, and nothing changes but Hulu works here.