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Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by xelfer »

reuven wrote: post #59
simias wrote: post #53

Blocked outside of the USA it seems. For a video about smuggled footage out of North Korea I find it a bit ironic. Quite frankly I find those regional restrictions as big a threat to the internet as all the net neutrality issues discussed lately. The internet shouldn't have borders.

You can use Unlocator ( http://unlocator.com/ ) to get around it. I've been using this for a number of months, and highly recommend it. (And for now, at least, it's free!) This is a practical workaround for what I agree is a stupid policy.

If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by simias »

xelfer wrote: post #61
reuven wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use Unlocator ( http://unlocator.com/ ) to get around it. I've been using this for a number of months, and highly recommend it. (And for now, at least, it's free!) This is a practical workaround for what I agree is a stupid policy.

If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

Thank you for the help but I simply downloaded the torrent given elsewhere in the comments.

I'm not really comfortable installing VPN software in my browser though, especially when it's free...

It seems so easy to forget to deactivate it and have all your plaintext traffic be highjacked by a third party. How do they pay for the VPN hosting anyway if it's free?

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by tigroferoce »

simias wrote: post #62
xelfer wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

Thank you for the help but I simply downloaded the torrent given elsewhere in the comments. I'm not really comfortable installing VPN software in my browser though, especially when it's free... It seems so easy to forget to deactivate it and have all your plaintext traffic be highjacked by a third party. How do they pay for the VPN hosting anyway if it's free?

You can also buy some hw from say amazon or other and configure your vpn.

Amazon has a free usage tier which allows you 1 year of free micro instance which is enough power to keep a VPN.

I bought a VM from RamNode for 12$/year and again is enough to run your VPN.

Then you can question whether Amazon or other service providers are safe enough, but this is another story ...

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

#66

Post by aaronem »

aaronsnoswell wrote: post #33
cclogg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Darn, now I really want to watch it lol! However, it's blocked in Canada :( It's kind of silly considering we actually contribute to PBS (according to PBS Seattle, we make up a 3rd of their contributions).

I'm from Australia, but couldn't resist not seeing this. I used a free US VPN to watch it ;)

You couldn't resist not seeing this, so you saw it?

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by tptacek »

belorn wrote: post #44
elipsey wrote: post #11

This documentary is really good. It's impossible not to gawk like a tourist at the pathological outcomes of the command econconmy, the wretched poverty, and the Orwellian anti U.S. propaganda, for example posters depicting U.S. soldiers pulling out the teeth of children with pliers, and executing Korean civilians. The film is composed largely of real footage produced by dissenters. No matter how cynical you might be…

Calling the posters propaganda would be true before 2001, but today I would not call it that. They simply represent a simplification of how an NK conflict with the U.S. army would look like. For example, U.S. Soldiers don't use pliers for torture. They chain civilians to prison ceilings instead and beat them to death. Alternative they use simulated executions, rape, or sodomized civilians like in Abu Ghraib. The post…

Interesting. What other North Korean state messages do you believe to be, at root, basically true and honest?

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by shubb »

xelfer wrote: post #61
reuven wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use Unlocator ( http://unlocator.com/ ) to get around it. I've been using this for a number of months, and highly recommend it. (And for now, at least, it's free!) This is a practical workaround for what I agree is a stupid policy.

If you use Chrome, Hola is pretty good and doesn't require a signup: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...

Personally, I make a digital ocean VM in the US, and then use:

ssh myvmaddress.com -D 10000

Then I set Firefox proxy to SOCKS on port 10000.

You can also do this on windows with putty. Great for when you need to use an untrusted wifi, because ssh checks that the proxy VM is who it says it is.

I just don't trust some shady proxy company with my data. 'So what is your business plan?', 'I am going to sell a service for hiding the dodgiest people on the internet, and also stealing BBC iplayer', 'oh, can I also send my banking data through it?'. I don't like this conversation.

Re: Secret State of North Korea [video]

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Post by polymatter »

yareally wrote: post #57
seszett wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not blocked for not being in the UK, you are blocked for being in the US. And the UK is blocked too (well, it depends on which BBC channel you are talking about).

> And the UK is blocked too (well, it depends on which BBC channel you are talking about) Odd, I thought the entire UK was granted access, so long as they paid their "television tax" or whatever they call it now. How/Why does such additional blocking happen if that is not the case? Just curious.

The BBC can not show ads to the UK public. This is part of the BBC charter and is there to ensure the BBC remains impartial. The idea is that since the BBC is funded by the licence fee (the TV tax), it is free of commercial concerns. This means that the BBC doesn't have to focus on chasing viewing numbers with lowest common denominator programming and so it can produce quality programming. Also the BBC is never beholden to any large investor or customer, so can be trusted as a news source.

BBC Worldwide is a subsidiary company of the BBC. It makes money from selling broadcasting rights, ads to other countries. This is fine because the UK public never sees those ads. Unfortunately, not being allowed to show ads to the UK public means they block access to all BBC Worldwide programs from within the UK. Some of those programs are entire new series eg (http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/) which the UK public has no right to be able to view.

If you attempt to access the totally free BBC Worldwide content within the UK you are presented the following:

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the license fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

Its totally stupid. Everyone knows its stupid. But since almost everyone agrees the BBC is (surprisingly) good on the whole, any change to it is resisted on impulse.

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