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Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by a-US-er » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 4:39 AM UTC

thechangelog wrote: post #19

mansr wrote: post #15

Is Canada any worse off than Europe, Asia, Latin America, or Africa in this regard?

I'm sure it's about the same. However, since we Canadians get such a huge amount of our media from the US it's likely more of a disappointment.

However, since we Canadians get such a huge amount of our media from the US

a fact about which Canadians and other non-Americans never seem to tire of complaining, until the day they discover that the e-spigot has been shut-off for them, then it's whambulance time: "Where are my American TV shows and movies!"

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by sjs » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:07 AM UTC

Poor man's SSL VPN

  ssh -D 9050 yourbox.net

and set your system's SOCKS proxy to localhost:9050

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by zmn » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:17 AM UTC

Here's a list of some sites that are not available in Belgium. I assume that a lot of these sites are not available in Canada (and most other parts of the world) either:

UK Services:

BBC Iplayer ITV 4OnDemand DemandFive Sky TVCatchup ZATTOO

US Services:

Hulu: www.hulu.com NBC: www.nbc.com ABC: www.abc.com Fox: www.fox.com The WB: www.thewb.com The CW: www.cwtv.com USA Network: www.usanetwork.com

France Services:

M6replay: www.M6replay.fr

Netherlands Services: RTL: Rtl.nl

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by rb2k_ » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:31 AM UTC

sjs wrote: post #72

Poor man's SSL VPN ssh -D 9050 yourbox.net and set your system's SOCKS proxy to localhost:9050

sadly Flash will try a direct socket connection first and just ignore your system's proxy settings...

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by markchristian » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:31 AM UTC

This is the most depressing weekend project I've ever seen here.

Keep up the good work, though. :)

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by rb2k_ » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:34 AM UTC

OmarIsmail wrote: post #17

A lot of these issues can be resolved for $5/month and less than that if you're willing to setup your own private server. http://www.unblock-us.com/ lets you access American Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, ESPN3, etc etc. I'm not affiliated with them, but been using the service the past couple of months and it works amazingly. In fact I'm using American Netflix on my Xbox 360 as we speak. $5/month is a heck of a lot cheaper…

I wonder how they're doing this by just changing the DNS servers? Do they return their own IPs and run a man-in-the-middle kind of thing?

UPDATE: Just signed up. They do actually seem to redirect the traffic from domains like hulu.com/pandora.com/... to IPs that run a squid proxy. My guess would be that they just redirect the queries for the geo-localization to their squid servers and allow you to pass those that way

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by elai » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #48

OmarIsmail wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue with Google Voice isn't the IP address but needing an American phone number, so no, this service won't fix that.

use twilio or one of the other voip API's and setup a temporary inbound US number to do the gvoice authorization. A few ppl I know international did this to great success There is a weekend project + app in that for someone if they want to automate it for tasks that require an inbound US #

Big thing about google voice is the redirection, and some of us want a local number in our country to be called at.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by BoppreH » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

You think that's bad? Try a third world country, like Brazil. Not only the services are not available, but the hardware itself costs 4x more.

I loved the initiative, but it could be much better if it weren't tied to just Canada.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by elai » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:45 AM UTC

mp3jeep01 wrote: post #67

hackly wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we get a Google Voice number in Canada with this service?

agilo, you can get a GVoice like account on TellFi ( https://tellfi.ca ) disclaimer: I'm a founder there

Could you guys go for .03/minute? I could get .03/minute on my cell phone to call around a dozen countries in thailand (http://www.truemove.com/en/Inter-SIM-postpay.rails) and you can get 1500 for $30/month (0.03) minutes to call people anywhere in the US with t-mobile.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project, tracking the services you can't have in Canada

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Post by elai » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 5:53 AM UTC

elvirs wrote: post #66

city41 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A proxy wouldn't fix the issue?

how do you fix the issue of getting Google Voice on your phone with a proxy?

Find a generic voip provider with incoming numbers, priority call forwarding, voicemail saved as mp3 files and emailed to you? All you'd be missing is the texting and voicemail transcription, but your not missing much from that.