Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams

Re:Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams by chetanahuja on Monday February 10, 2014 @11:20PM (#7215765)

I've found unblock-us to be a superior solution. It doesn't actually tunnel the traffic, instead, it proxies the original request to the content site (BBC, Netflix in another region etc.) via an appropriate IP to authenticate. After that, the content flows directly from the origin to your device. All you need on the client side is to use their (unblock-us's) DNS. This allows you to use any device (and not just a computer capable of running some VPN client) to access the remote content while pretending to be in another region.

And yes, I'd just as happily pay directly for bbc content if they'd let me. BBC, why can't you let me pay your annual TV license fee and let me watch your internet content from anywhere.

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Re:Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams by pacificmint on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:14AM (#7216104)

I've been wondering how those work. I can understand how using a different DNS server can trick a streaming server which does the user distinction purely by DNS (in other words, only users from a certain region get the right IP address for the server).

But I am unsure how the mechanism you describe works in detail (tricking the server to see a domestic IP, but having it send data to a foreign one).

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