Boxee + VPN = Hulu goodness
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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