How to bypass hulu US only restriction.

I recently blogged about Hulu's lack of international content, as well as the reasons that force it to limit streaming to IP addresses registered as being in the US.

However as a newteevee article reminded me it is actually possible to bypass Hulu's US only restriction and watch Hulu in other countries such Canada, the UK and Australia.

I tried the system from Belgium and the streaming seems to work OK, even if you need to let the Hulu videos buffer a bit longer to compensate for the degraded network performance.

This makes Hulu's US only policy event more stupid as it can easily be bypassed by determined users but will keep away the casual user. This may also slow down the deployment of an Hulu alternative in some countries, as a lot of the early adopters would use Hulu itself instead, making the newcomer less profitable.

UPDATE: it seems that this application is now banned from Hulu.

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