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Why US Only????

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If you are like me, Canadian and a Web Geek, you have noticed that all of the good Internet content is available to the US only. Some examples of this are Hulu.com, Zune Marketplace, Netflix, and Pandora are just to name a few. If you go to any of these sites from within Canada the site will try to detect your IP address and reference it to a GeoIP program. If the program tells the site that you are not from the US they will block you out.

But WHY???

If these sites did not have the GeoIP program they would not know where you are from and would let everyone into the site. Also if they did not get the GeoIP program they would get a big Federal charge against them because of Copyright Laws. You see all of the content on the site is licenced for use inside the US only and can be a pain to re-licence all of the content for all other countries. So in all laziness and confusion they won’t.

I have yet to hear of any website that blocks content from Canada to the US. I think someone should start a web company like the ones listed above and block out only the US and let other counties enjoy the content.

I am now blocked

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Sure enough just after I posted my previous post my blog was blocked as you can see from this screen shot. I can still access the admin side of things to post new things but the main part of the site is blocked.

Bypass your school or workplace firewall

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It is content like this that will get my blog blocked at my school but I need to tell you anyway.

There are a bunch of ways to get around your school or workplace firewall, some work and others do not. The most basic of them all is to use what is called a proxy bypass website. This is a website that encrypts the URL of the website you are visiting and displays the page in your web browser. The downside to this is the website that you need to use may already be blocked and 90% of the time the page is not being displayed the right way.

The next way you can bypass the firewall is to use a portable web browser. Portable FireFox is a free portable version of the popular browser FireFox. All you need to do is install this program on your USB flash drive and run it off of that. All of your settings are saved to the folder that it was installed and it will not require one computer to run. Because most schools and workplaces just use Internet explorer they also setup the proxy settings in the settings of Internet Explorer. Because FireFox will not use a proxy by default it will skip the proxy server and go strait to the Internet. This can also make browsing faster because it is not waisting time going through the server.

Sometimes not even FireFox will work on the most harsh of network firewalls. In cases like this you are basically screwed.