So I was just doing my Sunday morning routine of catching up with The Daily Show and Colbert Report and I'm greeted with THIS:



"Sorry, this video is unavailable from your location."

I know full episodes have been geo-locked away from us but until now the clips have always worked. Not only that but I've been served AUSTRALIAN ADS while watching it.

Can someone else see if they can access it? Here's a recent clip: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-9-2011/sh-tzkrieg---anarchy-in-the-u-k-

Update with solution:

This youtube video explains how to work around it using Firefox and an add-on called Modify Headers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8rdpF1qZs

edit: note that since this video was aired, the Modify Headers extension has changed and you need to "activate it" to make it work. See the first comment in the YouTube video for more details, but basically you need it to look like this:

Finally the motivation required to get that mammothvpn service up and running?

Yeah vpn it. I think it's going to be something that every internet going Australian is going to have to have eventually.

vpn them.
its where we're heading anyway, mite as well get onboard now.

Comedy Channel are cunts!

Foxtel!

There are 4 episodes a week

I <3'd it when they had colbert on ABC2, he was staple viewing

now i have to torrrent it cos comedy central are a pack of arseholes™

It's been like this for about a week at least.

Maybe 7 9 or 10 is going to start showing it.
I havent seen anything on the TV blogs.

Daily Show and Colbert Report No Longer Accessible to Austra...

This is media companies trying to encourage you to use Bit Torrent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8rdpF1qZs - simple workaround for Firefox users

What do you mean? I certainly take a lot of their opinions seriously

Indeed. TDS and Colbert are probably better sources of news than the big ones in USA (Fox, etc). It's comedy/satire, but at lot of the stuff reported is pretty good.

a workaround i found was to share whatever video you want to watch into facebook, then you can play it in facebook

or torrent

Damnit, was struck once again by that once or so a month somebody links to an apparently-hilarious clip, only to find it blocked. >:(

Somewhat related question here, does anyone take their shows/opinions seriously from a political point of view? I swear I get that impression sometimes.

I don't watch the show, and wouldn't go to it for news, but I think that comedy (particularly satire and parody) is often fantastic at showing something insightful about somebody or something. It takes cleverness to make something amusing, I doubt that that cleverness is always entirely uninsightful too. Many positions and arguments are absurd, and that's why they're funny once highlighted and called out for their hypocrisy no?

Any http proxy will beat it; I have a copy of firefox just for this

Woot! Thanks dude, missed that tube video ><

Would make me nervous doing it for something like games purchases. If they ever hotfix it, there goes your game right? D:

True. I don't understand how steam works in regard to regional activation all that well. There have been a few things on cdkey direct web sites that I've been tempted to buy, but have shied away when it said that it requires a VPN with a Russian IP or some such to activate. Once you do that, can you just play it from any location or with any IP?

I wonder if this would work with online purchases?
eg: Steam

I don't think it does, I tired it ages ago and I don't think it worked out, I think you saw the US store but when you went to secure http for checkout it reverted back.

1.Use Firefox and install an add-on called “Modify Headers“.

2.Using the add-on, add a header of “X-Forwarded-For” with a value of “12.13.14.15″ or any IP that you know is an IP address in the US.

3.Set the add-on to be “Always on” in the Options.

Colbert report is a must see!

i can access it.. maybe i should set up a proxy for you noobs

First thing I thought of is "Can I use this with steam" lol. It does bring me to the US store but I have not tried to purchase anything.

Funny that they will still serve up Australian ads

It was working for me today. A week or so ago it stopped working. Realised that Modify Headers was not running and was no longer in menu. Found it and turned it back on and it's been working since.

Anytime I watch it I just end up rolling my eyes. You have to be prepared to suspend political judgment and enjoy the humour because if it is intended to be meaningful (if subliminal) commentary, it fails.

Anytime I watch it I just end up rolling my eyes. You have to be prepared to suspend political judgment and enjoy the humour because if it is intended to be meaningful (if subliminal) commentary, it fails.

this just sounds like classic "I disagree with their position on politics therefore their commentary is invalid"

The extended interviews Stewart does on politics are some of the most insightful political commentary I've ever seen. Maybe you are missing the point?

Trog when are you guys going to have a vpn offering?

Also regionalisation of the internet...fuck I hate you

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trog, wouldn't it be (EZ)ier if there was a (TV) related website that had torrents to such shows?????

You sir a legend.

I see that there's a temporary workaround using the FF extension to modify headers, but sooner or later they're going to figure that out and hook up some true ip based geoblocks. I'm amazed it still works after all this time really.

And since there's already a 1 post noob plugging another service I figured I'd mention that http://VPNSecure.me is awesome. We have West Coast USA servers for good performance from AU to USA, and offer OpenVPN/PPTP/L2TP/HTTP Proxies & now new SSH Tunnels for accessing any geoblocked services worldwide :)

Edit: Oh and it's unlimited bandwidth for all but the AU servers too

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