hulu won’t let you get anywhere on the site without giving them your location
> We are pretending the internet is cable and you will play along god dammit
Popular streaming services are really making strong points for piracy by implementing DRM and other spying anti-features.
That’s because of the fucking sports rules with NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL.
It has to do with blackouts and other bullshit rules.
Normally if you watch Hulu (we do cause I got in at $1/mo) it asks you once but I set firefox to ignore forever.
I’m pretty sure there are extensions/browsers that allow you to fake this location.
This is actually a good thing because you can spoof your location through the browser instead of using a VPN.
There is a reason for this though, the contract to stream shows is only valid in certain regions, if hulu streams video to the wrong location they could lose their license, so they need to know your location
Drink up me hearties!
- Step 1 - turn on VPN
- Step 2 - select some random region
- Step 3 - move on
I live in FL but VPN into a London server when I want to see what other shows we don’t have here. Works perfect.
Just use Tor if you are concerned about your privacy, it is not completely effective though, just like any VPN, but at least you don’t have to pay for it wondering if that effort was enough.
Preaching about privacy on a mac, huh?
If we don’t create artificial scarcity, how else can we maintain dying profit models?
Well, it’s less about that, and more about copyright law and licensing being suuuuper territorial.
too bad the state of torrent hosts is still abysmal. RIP Demonoid with triple digit seeders
Yeah. It’s also because most of the content agreements are by geography of the viewer unlike the entire rest of the internet where you pay for something and they give it to you. So Hulu might have a deal to stream some show, but only in some countries. In other countries, it might be a different deal or not allowed at all.
This is why we pirate even if we’d prefer to just pay.
Geez, maybe just don’t show those at all if they’re not sure where you are and you don’t want to tell them. There’s gotta be plenty of worldwide content.
Hulu also has a nifty functionality on their page where you can cancel your account.
it punishes legitimate users
this is actually a good thing
What? That’s like saying that it doesn’t matter that my Mac has custom screw heads, because I can easily get the tools down the street. It’s convenient sure, and I’m glad we have the extensions, but they shouldn’t have become a necessity.