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Hulu United States Only — FAQ

PaulAugust 27, 20084 Replies

In a Comment on there Hulu Blog,

August 16th, 2008 at 08:52 AM Umm, when exactly did Hulu decide to shut its doors to everyone outside of America? The site’s title is “Watch your Favorites. Anytime. For Free”. I’m sorry Hulu, this is a complete lie, as anyone viewing your site outside of the US is banned from viewing your videos. All the time. So that you know, I intend on writing a letter to Joss Whedon asking that he pull his Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog video from your network and redistribute it to a video site that isn’t run by people who embrace the philosophy “Defective By Design”. That way, the thousands of other people wanting to see this video, like me, don’t have to resort to downloading the thing via the piratebay.

Well, This is something I wanted to discuss for everyone who reads my blog why Hulu isn’t allowing anyone outside of America to see the videos. It’s all have to do with there contracts they have with certain providers.

Let me explain it to you another way, Hulu is now being watch all over North America. Hulu is obligated to make sure no one out side of the US can watch these movies because they have “NO RIGHTS” to share this with anyone out side of the US. When Hulu makes deals with these major distributors, they sign a contract. In the contract somewhere at sometime, they are explicitly forbidden to stream this material outside of the US.

Is there ways around this?

Having experience in the computer repair and understand of what is required for someone to get around this type of “Protection” is somewhat hard. Here is the reason, when Hulu banned people from watching outside of the US they did so by banning a group of Internet Protocols.

Here are Three ways at which I know you can watch HULU programming. Be advised that these are ways to get around the protection and by doing this, You hold me not responsible for any and all actions. I talk about this because it would be unfair not to, I’ve got to have some responsibility to my readers.

USE A PROXY Server in the United States — Now this one is the hardest because I don’t know of any. I am not going to do your homework for you, but I will say there has to be several in the US. Be Warned that using this will greatly reduce quality and speed. You will sooner or later be found out and blocked, so use this one is at your own risk.

Ask Major Media Distributors to join HULU — Writing to them and asking them to join Hulu will increase the likely hood of them opening up the resources to let people view outside of HULU. You see the other distributors have the rights to distribute outside of the US. If you get them to come to Hulu, you will be giving them the power to allow certain content to be streamed outside of HULU. If you want to contact the distributors and ask them to join Hulu, by all means go through the IMDB and look for the distributors you want on HULU and find out how to email them or Snail Mail them!!

USE an VPN to Access HULU — This one is like Proxy Servers but this one is most often used by people who are traveling outside of the US. That’s right if your company has a VPN inside of the US you can watch shows. This too could get your IP banned from Hulu, although I tell you this for those business men and women who are traveling and live in the United States and Military people too. Has all the same flaws as Proxy, will slow you down, and quality will take a hit also!!

These are just a few of the ways you could stream information from HULU but use at your own risk. If you have any other comments to add just go ahead and add them. I want to hear what people think or what they want me to talk about.

Is IPv6 a Problem or is it still in Beta?

PaulAugust 15, 2008

Due to the high volume of people, I have thought of how best to go about describing my issue with my DSL router and why I”ve disabled IPv6!!! First off, I have a VISTA Premium System, with an OEM license. That isn’t nothing new. The problem is that if I use IPv6, I would constantly get no internet. I would always get local but not Internet. I didn’t know why until recently, and that was IPv6. It isn’t to say I don’t stop getting this. I still do but it is less of the problem. I could re-install the system and see if that fixes the problem.

Would that fix the problem?

Yes it probably would if it is a driver issue. I say it isn’t because if it was a driver issue I could just downgrade to an earlier driver, which there is none. I am going to guess that no one has done any new drivers for the IPv6 Since Vista came out. I don’t know why but with my DSL it has been an issue when I was on my cable. I recently switched, I had no problems.

Could it be my DSL Provider?

It is also a probability. I do know like any DNS providers with the latest scare. Is your DNS Safe? I talked about DNS cache Poisoning and how to fix it. I talked about OpenDNS. I have been using OpenDNS since I’ve gotten DSL and if it was an DNS issue, I’ve read reports that Open DNS has never had this type of issue. So it can’t be my DNS although, there is always a chance the DSL provider could be having problems with the IPv6 Protocol. Check out Failing to plan is planning to fail post about this same type of issue.

Could I have a bad DSL Modem?

Let’s just say this, If it is the modem then that would be a problem. You try telling you provider that you are having problems with IPv6. I am sure they would be scratching there heads like what is that and how do you know? So I would love to flash the DSL modem with the latest software but for some reason I can’t find any updates. It’s a Westell 325W and I looked and can’t find anything!! I could see if I couldn’t find a Linux distro to flash into but I am not that good at this stuff. So If you know how to fix that problem. By all means tell me.

Could I use a AYIYA tunnel to fix this?

The only problem I see with this that it would slow me down even more. I only have so much bandwitdth to worry about. Having to Tunnel this through a service would hinder me. So I can’t think of any reason why I would want to slow me down. I am really not concerned with IPv6 because when they do go into being required, they should have this fixed. Will they fix the problem soon, I hope but I hold no definite answers on that one!!

Filling the Internet Needs 3/3

PaulAugust 14, 2008

Is Google part of your you blog Body?

Having Google be part of your blog is essential to keeping people coming to your site. Google is kind, intelligent enough, forgiving, and nice to have on your site. Having Google juice helps you give your blog a chance to thrive. Making enemies is fine if you must, but don’t make enemies with Google. You need to understand that Google is right now the Alpha Dog. It can make or break your site. If you get removed from Google, guess what you will probably be removed from other search sites almost certainly because of Google.

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Time is the essence of creating a good blog!

It takes time to get people to come to your blog and stay at your blog. It isn’t something that will come almost instantly. It has taken me a year now to start getting people a high volume of people coming to my site. Some people think blogging should bring people to there site almost instantly. I would say that is almost impossible unless you do some things that I will not go into but it will never keep people to come to your blog, it’s how you talk to your web users. I’ll talk more about that later. I hope this helps you figure out how to start yoru blog and understand the challenges of having a blog. If you want to comment about what I’ve said please go right ahead!!

Filling the Internet need 2/3

PaulAugust 13, 2008

How do I get people to come to my blog?

This comes with some problems and some answers. Finding something that your passionate about is one way to get other people who are passionate about the same thing to come find your blog. The only problem is that you create a single group of people who are at your blog for a single reason. Having been doing the Hulu clues, I’ve seen that and understand that will happen. I am trying to get people to stay at my site is the hardest part of having what I call a point of entry campaign. I know most of them will see my site and go do something else. I almost expect that but I know I will keep a few people who like what they see and want to keep seeing this type of stuff. I never expect to keep everyone who comes to my blog. I expect I’ll probably keep around 10% or so from just doing the point of entry campaign.

Stats are always going to say something different with each site and owner, it is something that is going to be valuable to a degree. It however doesn’t tell the full story, it only tells a part of the story. People will always have opinions on stats and it will always be different from one person to the other. I will never base my site on just stats alone. I base it on the community.

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Will these people stay after Hulu clues are over?

I’ll be truthful, I am not going to say one way or the other. It is like a wave of people and it will always be that way!! People are always going to come and go, it’s something you should never take personally like you’ve done something to get people to leave and others to come to your site. Some bloggers think it is bad to loose people, most of the time it is something that will eventually happen. It happens because people are human and like change. Change is something that will happen and most bloggers know this.

Does it depend on my site server?

Having a reliable server is something that helps get people to come to your site. I remember having a free blogger account and if I get hit with 100 people doing a search for something and them all trying to go to my site almost all at the same time, my site couldn’t handle it. Unlike who I have today. [insert ad] If you have a powerful server who can take the web hits and be reliable, that is how you succeed in having a blog.

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Network Connectivity and Vista’s TCP/IPV6

PaulAugust 1, 20081 Reply

So I’ve been having problems with Vista and Network Connectivity. I’ve got a DSL modem that would from time to time just drop connection to the internet or at least I thought it was that. So I’d check the modem everytime this happenes. It would say I was connected to to the network but not be on internet. I went searching and found this really good forum discussion on Verizon and DSL. After reading all there was people were talking about the IPv6 protocol was the main culprit. So I figured I’d see what happens when I disabled the IPv6 Protocol from my system. It worked no more connectivity issues.

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How do I disable the IPv6 Protocol?

In order to fix this problem you have to do some simples steps. Here is how I fixed it. Right Click > Select “Network and Sharing Center” > “View Status” for either Wireless or LAN. > Properities

It will be here that you must do something important to get this to work right. You will have to uncheck the Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6). If you have both wireless and Lan. You will have to do it for both of them. There must be a problem with IPv6 because after doing this my system hasn’t lost connectivity and this is wireless. You should also reboot your system to make sure it takes into account. Uncheck it then press ‘OK’ and reboot. After that you will be smooth sailing. Although this is easy it is essential to note not all DSL modems are the same and it can be several reasons why it would be doing that for you but for me. It was the fact that IPv6 isn’t fully developed and from what I hear from people it won’t be available for several years so right now in time, it isn’t any thing I can use right now.

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When are they expect to start using IPv6?

According to all I hear in the nextr 5 to 10 years at the earliest but some people estimate longer more on the lines of 15 to 20 years. It will take a lot of work to make it available to all. It has to be part of the whole internet. It will take millions of dollars for it to be deployed. If you have any ideas on how to get this to work on vista. Leave a comment to better help others figure how to fix this.