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  • Goodby Hulu (and commercials), hello bittorrent

    • 23 Feb 2009
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    Once I started using Hulu on my boxee, my bittorrent addiction went away almost overnight. Instead of dealing with trackers, and downloading, and seeding, I could watch virtually whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. The commercials for me were a small price to pay. 

    Now Hollywood has gone and shot themselves in the foot *again* and banned boxee, all because Hollywood feels that Hulu should strictly remain on the Desktop and not the TV screen. Instead of welcoming an army of downloaders back into the world of commercially-supported content, they have literally taken a page from RIAA's successful destruction of Napster (note massive sarcasm). 

    Thanks Hollywood, but no thanks. I suppose you leave me no choice but to return to commercial-free bittorrent downloads. Plus, now that I have *finally* discoverd TED, I can sit back and let the technology bring the shows to me as soon as they are available! 

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  • Boxee + VPN = Hulu goodness

    • 13 Feb 2009
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    For those of us stuck in the hinterlands of living abroad, but wanting to watch US TV shows, we have few options:

    1. Wait for a local TV station to acquire the rights. Sometimes those rights take a year or more (so we are at season 1 when the US is into search 2 or 3).

    2. Wait for the DVD

    3. Wait for itunes *yawn*

    4. Download using bittorrent

    At the moment, option 4 is the only viable one for me, but now there is a new way, watching Hulu (or CBS) video (with minor amounts of commercials) via Boxee and a simple US-based VPN service! 

    If you have Boxee and you live abroad, all you need are two things:

    1. The Boxee VPN plug-in: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=5682

    2. A US-based VPN service like Witopia: http://www.witopia.net/  <--Witopia charges just $40 per year

    This could very well cure me of my bittorrent addiction...

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