Can't really think of a title - the question involves illagality and internet

Feuerfrei.x

Feuerfrei.x

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Hye soz about the title

but i was just wondering about what my IT teacher said awhile ago about if you want to watch videos and they are blocked becasue of what country you can do sometime which tricks the sites server into thinking you are in a different country
i was wondering if that is legal or illegal and if it is legal how do i do that becasue i cant remember what he said you had to do

Thanks.x
 
I always just search whatever and watch it from google. If google video is blocked then change .com to .bs or something different.
 
Jackassluver said:
Hye soz about the title

but i was just wondering about what my IT teacher said awhile ago about if you want to watch videos and they are blocked becasue of what country you can do sometime which tricks the sites server into thinking you are in a different country
i was wondering if that is legal or illegal and if it is legal how do i do that becasue i cant remember what he said you had to do

Thanks.x
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Usually that happens when the company posting the video online isn't authorized to distribute it in certain countries.
 
Cromewell said:
Usually that happens when the company posting the video online isn't authorized to distribute it in certain countries.
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yhe its bloody annoying - all i wanted to do was watch parts of "the IT crowd" on youtube and go on those websites of which you can watch full episodes of Family Guy and the simpson and stuff because here in england we always seam to be seasons behind:mad::mad::mad:
 
They do it because those videos are paid for by advertising, and it really doesn't do any good to advertise American products in countries where they are not available. As for attempting to circumvent them blocking you from viewing the videos in your country, no it's not illegal. There are no laws that say you can't view the videos, it's just that they don't want you to.
 
Jackassluver said:
yhe its bloody annoying - all i wanted to do was watch parts of "the IT crowd" on youtube and go on those websites of which you can watch full episodes of Family Guy and the simpson and stuff because here in england we always seam to be seasons behind:mad::mad::mad:
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PohTayToez said:
They do it because those videos are paid for by advertising, and it really doesn't do any good to advertise American products in countries where they are not available. As for attempting to circumvent them blocking you from viewing the videos in your country, no it's not illegal. There are no laws that say you can't view the videos, it's just that they don't want you to.
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I'm pretty sure it is illegal to watch shows from other countries though that haven't been aired here, especially if you don't have the channels that air them payed for. Once they have been done here, provided you payed for, or currently are paying for, the service that airs them, then I think it is legal to watch them.

I may be wrong though, please correct me someone if I am :P
 
Aastii said:
I'm pretty sure it is illegal to watch shows from other countries though that haven't been aired here, especially if you don't have the channels that air them payed for. Once they have been done here, provided you payed for, or currently are paying for, the service that airs them, then I think it is legal to watch them.

I may be wrong though, please correct me someone if I am :P
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I am sure you are wrong. Having the channels that air them doesn't have anything to do with anything. Watching something on air and watching something online isn't really comparable in this way, because the ad revenue from over the air TV is far greater than that generated from online viewership. Also, over the air shows compete with other shows that occur in the same time slot on different channels, which does not happen to shows that are viewed online.

As far as the online viewing goes, that's a service that they're providing for free, to anyone that has the resources to view it. When they put something online, there is no law that says that it can only be viewed in certain countries. The closest thing that they could do is have an entrance page that says something along the lines of "By entering this site you are agreeing to only view this content from within the United State", and then if you violated that they would be able to sue you for breach on contract. But even then, they would have a very shallow case against you, and it wouldn't be like pirating where they can sue you for the value of the music/video and multiply it by the number of people you shared it with, they would only be able to sue you for the cost of viewing a single show.

Not that any of that matters, because they don't do that. And while they do code the site in a way that prevents those in other countries from viewing the content, circumventing that code is in no way illegal, so long as you do not compromise the security of the site (i.e. hacking).
 
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