So, you have received one of those much though after Hulu private invitations only to find out that you can’t watch a single movie on their website because of their geo-targeting ? Viewers who do not live in the United States get the following line whenever they try to watch a video at Hulu.
“Unfortunately this video is currently not available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience”. That means that if you live in the United States but are currently abroad you can’t watch the videos at Hulu. Unless, you have found a way to use a service that hides your IP and displays one from the United States.
The following method is unfortunately not free but works perfectly to watch all videos at Hulu. Secure-Tunnel offers a software that tunnels your connection through their service which is located in the United States. This means that you can use their software to watch videos at Hulu plus use any other service that is geotargeted to the United States. This includes Pandora for instance.
Secure-Tunnel offers several packages and all work beginning with the Gold package which costs roughly $8 per month. What I really like about this solution is that the software that you install is recognizing software that is connecting to the Internet and is asking you if you want to tunnel that software.
Besides the obvious effect that you can watch Hulu videos and listen to Pandora Radio streams you also hide your own IP and use an encrypted connection. This increases the security level of your connection as well as your own privacy.
As you can see it is possible to access Hulu from outside the United States and watch all shows without interruption.
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Haha, ich bin auf Hulu. Nur zu dumm, dass man mit einer europäischen IP nicht drauf zugreifen kann. Doch Dr. Google schafft Abhilfe. Dem ghacks.net-Blog folgend bin ich dann auf das vista-fähige Programm gestossen, dass mir (gratis ) über…
Hi,
is there any other way to hide the IP so I can watch hulu ?
Thanks!
Or maybe you could use a proxy (http://proxy.org/):
- select from the right a US random proxy;
- write the website in the upper bar;
- enjoy US-only sites!
(works with Pandora, don’t know about Hulu… I’ll try)
I’m not sure if a normal web proxy would work, if you get any results ST1V let me know please.
I personally think that VPN connections are far superior but come at a cost. The increased security and anonymity is in my opinion worth it.
But, if you do get it to work let me know please, this would make an interesting story.
Hotspot Shield from Anchorfree is a free VPN utility. The server is US based and has decent bandwidth.
It works well to listen to Pandora from abroad. Might work with Hulu as well.
I tried connecting with the proxy 66.98.238.8:3128 to a site with the only Hulu video I know (http://blog.hulu.com/2007/10/28/beta-testing-begins-for-hulu).
Without the proxy it says “not currently avaiable in your country or region”, with the proxy it says “this video is no longer unavaiable”, but it doesn’t say it’s due to my location. Maybe I get that error because that video has been removed…
Anyone with another Hulu video I could try with?
ST1V try the sample video that I added. It is working perfectly with Secure Tunnel :)
Well, than I have to admit it doesn’t work with a proxy… Maybe Traindle’s suggestion will work.
I’m having trouble with secure tunnel right now and it won’t get anything to work, but maybe that’s coz I’m still trying to get the software to work. Could someone help me and let me know what you did?
Please explain what’s happening exactly Yustynn so I can get a picture on what you might be doing wrong / might be wrong with the software.
Tried the tunnel, anonymizer, proxys, nothing works. I have a nice beta account and I cant use it. Sucks to be outside the US right now :)
Oh nevermind Martin they were having some issues that’s why it didn’t work. Works fine now. Thanks though!
IT WORKS!
Cant get it to work. Signed up, and installed the software but when I try to connect to Tunnel East or West it disconnects me from the server and the webtunnel makes no difference to Hulu.
Am I even doing it right? There are that many different types of software on their site its a bit daunting…
Christabel I start the secure-tunnel application on my Pc and click on connect in there. This connects me to the network.
After that I start Opera or Firefox and Secure Tunnel asks me if I want to use it for that connection. I say yes and from then on I use the service with the browser.
Then I simply go to Hulu and can watch the videos offered there.
That means it is working now Christabel ?
Luca you need to download the software and use it. do not use the website to access Hulu, this won’t work. The Secure-Tunnel software can be downloaded here https://www.secure-tunnel.com/support/software_setup/windows/windows.cfm for windows xp / 2000.
Pete the Secure Tunnel Launcher should be working under Vista as well, did you try that one ?
Martin you are so helpful!!!
Unfortunately I’ve got Vista and in the link it says that the software is not compatible: I have the Secure Tunnel Launcher software installed (the one for the Gold subscription) and I’ve changed the settings in Firefox as it shows on the website
https://www.secure-tunnel.com/support/software_setup/windows/firefox/firefox.cfm
But still when I open the Hulu page (in Firefox) i recieve the message: the content is not currently available when i try to open a video.
What am I doing wrong then?
Martin thank you so much for all your help, you really are a great person.
Bye Luca!
Thanks Martin, yeah got it working on XP using secure tunnel.
Tried the Mac method at home and I’ve hit a brick wall. I can get the tunnel program running fine, update the proxies but Hulu seems to know all about my deception and restrict playback saying ‘Sorry, video not available at this time’.
I’ll have to stick to my PC at work it seems but I suppose its better than nothing. Its a really nice app though…
Luca maybe the content is not available for Firefox. I know that those websites tend to be rather restrictive. Did you try it with Internet Explorer ?
Try AnchorFree.
It’s working for me (firefox, XP) in Australia. A little “choppy”/stop-start though.
Hey guys.. I have a mac os 10.5
I installed AlmostVPN/pro i set everything as in the web site says to do but hulu says “sorry, this video is currently unavaible, we apologize for any incovienent”.
It seems to be the same problem as christabel has at home..
does anyone know what i should do?
I want the people to know that nowadays secure-tunnel does NOT work with hulu on a mac.
If anyone knows why please let me know it..
Use Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree. Works perfectly. I’ve posted some videos here:
http://hulustuff.blogspot.com/
Hi everyone, has anyone managed to get Hulu running on Vista outside the US? I’ve tried both AnchorFree and Secure Tunnel with no luck…
Thanks to everyone willing to help
Bye Luca!!!
Thanks! AnchorFree Hotspot Shield works perfectly!
Hey, ive tryed the AnchorFree Hotspot Shield, well its the slowest thing ever… =\
But it works, but its too slow! :P
So, if anyone in here knows another program like Hotspot Shield, or Secure-Tunnel thats free, PLEASE post it here!
Thx, Ziink
Odd, but using Hotspot Shield, the Hulu site itself is “choppy”, yet hulu “stuff” posted in a blog works perfectly.
Also, abc.com works perfectly using Hotspot Shield. One trick though: You need to change your time zone to a US one such as Arizona. Just double click the time in the bottom right corner of the screen, click the time zone tab, and change it to a US one. NBC and CBS are choppy though. Also good are fox, and joost (some good CBS content not available outside the US.)
*Sorry remove this pls*
It does work, but to damn slow!!! I need to like reconnect 500 times to find a good one! =\
And I have 10mbs internet connection, that is like fast :P
So, someone knows any other ones thats fast?
Thx, Ziink
AnchorFree works fine for me at work on a Mac, but on my PC at home (windows xp, sp2) it doesn’t work at all.
It sits on “Waiting for Server” forever.
Total. Bummer.
Hotspot shield works. I’m in Canada and tried quite a few free proxys. Nothing worked until I tried HotSpot Shield. And it’s free. Get it here… http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/
I am in Ireland on a Mac running leopard and I was able to get it to work.
I wrote a mini how to for anyone else having trouble. It’s pretty painless as well:
http://www.theispysite.com/2007/12/20/i-spyhow-to-get-around-hulu-region-restrictions-finally/
Hotspot shield works perfectly!!!
It does work, but to damn slow!!! I need to like reconnect 500 times to find a good one! =\
And I have 10mbs internet connection, that is like fast :P So, someone knows any other ones thats fast?
Thx, Ziink
you can hotspot shield, free download and all. it works well to get you to the site, bandwidth is not that good though. but nonetheless is a good trade off
http://huluexposed.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/how-to-bypass-the-hulucom-location-check-using-a-socks5-proxy-2/
hey guys if your in Australia just download
hot spot shield from anchorfree it works perfect with hulu
on Firefox i have had NO problems.
cheers
Hi Martin I know this is a very old post, but I think this is the right place to post this. I just discovered that you can bypass the protection using Opera browser without any other application or proxies. I posted this on my blog:
http://www.martinaberastegue.com/utiles/como-sortear-proteccion-hulu.html
, but it’s in Spanish so I’ll translate the essence here in English. All you have to do is go to the URL:
http://releasegeo.hulu.com/geoCheck
If you’re outside the US you’ll see the following:
not-valid
go to view source code for that page, and you will find a xml tags, just remove the “not-” from the source, apply the changes and refresh the page for the video you wants to watch. And that’s it, Hulu.com without using proxies.
I hope this help you guys.
One more thing, use the ALT+F5 when refreshing the hulu video webpage so it clear the cache for that page.
Actually what i see is not “not-valid” but is “Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States”.
The page where that appears is full of other things and if i click view source there are hundres of code lines and “not-valid” is not there.
Did i misundertand something?
Gian the source you have to modify is the one for the http://releasegeo.hulu.com/geoCheck url.
Ok. I did it, but it doesn’t work. I clicked on http://releasegeo.hulu.com/geoCheck, modified the source code and then I opened hulu.com and I got the same message: “Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States”.
I use opera as well.
Well I’ve checked this again and now it’s no working anymore… idk why, maybe the hulu IT guys are really fast solving this kind of “bugs” when dettect somebody’s IP outside the US downloading their contents. :(
:-(
It looks Hulu’s now using the flash protocol to get around browser proxy settings. I found a linux solution here: http://www.alternativedenial.org/?p=94. They suggest that proxifier works for windows too, but I haven’t tried that yet.
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UKiVPN.com provides full access for Hulu etc in the US and for iPlayer, C4, ITV, etc in the UK. It costs $8US / £4.74GBP. Very reliable so far (had it 3 weeks) and fast enough to avoid buffering problems. Easy to set up and use. Pretty good product.