Vidalia exit-country and Hulu

Brian Mearns bmearns at ieee.org
Wed Sep 16 14:02:50 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bao song <michaelwprx at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> Some time ago (2008) I read about a Canadian who used Tor to view Hulu.
>
> I tried it from outside the US, and it worked, but the speed was too slow for me to use it regularly. Today, a clip from Hulu was highly recommended by the New York Times, so I tried again: Hulu now tries to block all attempts to connect via Tor. I tried two US exits, and both were blocked.
>
> Of course, the idea of Tor is NOT to allow people to watch high bandwidth commercial videos restricted to US audiences, but to allow people who need privacy to obtain it.
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You seem to understand the burden such activities place on the Tor
network, in which case I'm curious what reason one might have for
accessing Hulu anonymously? (Genuine question, not a snide comment)

-Brian

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