calling the flist! geoblockers -- how to avoid?

[astolat]

Flist! Google has failed me! Do any of you know of a method or tutorial for how to fake an IP address to get around these horrible geoblocking things that for instance prevent you from watching Merlin clips on the BBC website if you are browsing from the US?

Help!

PS: by way of thank you, recs!

kaneko has posted Arthur's Sword to merlin_flashfic, and you should

Comments

[zoetrope]

This isn't altogether helpful, but I've just been looking around it and there's nothing particularly good available. I's mostly episode clips. There are 'character profiles' which are just a bunch of episode clips with narration from Gaius, and then the only really new content I've found has been of Merlin showing you how to perform basic tricks. Hope that's some consolation!

[ximeria]

Hmmm, well, last time I managed to get in with one IP address -- but I sometimes find it blocked and have to go hunt new ones. I seem to recall they have to be listed as anonymous and it always takes me testing 5-15 ips before I find one that works -- they slow the process down so sometimes you have to reload the browserwindow to get it to work. I take it you know where to change your browser's ip/proxy? I then go through the lists @ places such as:

xroxy
or
proxylist-org
or
samair.ru

PS
79.99.43.128 port 3128
worked the last time for me when I wanted to watch Doctor Who. But it's slooooow -- though once the vid is running it does so without a hitch - -haven't tested it in a while, though.

I normally use opera for browsing, but I tend to set firefox with the fake proxy so I don't have to go change the proxy setting whenever I want to go watch something that's off limits to me -- which is about everything because I'm neither American, nor British.

[rodneyscat]

I also use hotspot shield, as mentioned earlier, but now with added linkage yay!

Oh, and if you use whatever you use and the clips are spotty and stuttery in places, it's not the whatever-you-use, it's the BBC site; I watched some of those episodes & clips in the UK and had the same problem.