[nik at work]

My son, who is ill, wants to watch the Simpsons. If I go to thesimpsons.com I can apparently watch full episodes but when I try the flash player window displays a "thanks, but no thanks, you're not in the U.S." message. I tried going through proxify but the thing just seemed to hang not loading the episode.
So any knowledge on Americanizing my computer?
Cheers chaps

[SA Chris]

I think it's your ISp, not your computer that may be issue. No idea of workaround.

Try http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,12444.0.html



Doesn't look like you can get it on C4 OD.

[Serpico]

So any knowledge on Americanizing my computer?

You can Americanize your computer in 4 easy steps:
1: Uninstall Google maps
2: Install 'Old Testament.exe'
3: Lower the processing speed
4: Give it a gun

[nik at work]

It's alright, he's fallen asleep now.

SA Chris, ah OK that makes sense. So I simply need to hack into an American ISP, shouldn't be too hard...

Serpico

[Jim]

its because they can detect your location via your ISP and your not in the US and they probably have blocked known proxy sites as well, try soem other ones (annonymouse etc...)

[tomtom]

These guys can help y'all out with a simple conversion,...

[lagerstarfish]

http://www.wtso.net/

 

hope the little one gets better soon

[nik at work]

Perfect timing Lagers, he's just woken up.

[lagerstarfish]

I have just hit the same problem

all I wanted to do was watch Kenny cheesing his tits off

[slackline]

As Jim says, its all down to being able to geographically locate  you based on your IP address which your ISP assigns to you.

If you're using Firefox (and why wouldn't you be, unless of course you're using Opera) then grab the FoxyProxy plugin and find a free proxy that isn't banned.

If you ever go abroad you'll find that you can't access the majority of BBC content as its for license payers only (this really wrankled when I spent a year in Australia having paid license fees for years).