{"id":1363,"date":"2008-08-10T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2008-08-10T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T14:50:20","slug":"hotspotshield-hulu-piratebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Hotspotshield + Hulu > PirateBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

While downloading TV series and movies is suprisingly legal in Spain for personal use and my kids used to be heavy downloaders, they have recently cut down a lot. They have not decreased their downloading activities because they had an ethical dilemma or because they were pestered by me. They almost stopped getting movies on the internet because they much prefer streaming to downloading. And they are not alone. Many people prefer an Internet connection streaming rather to downloading because of the instant gratification element in which there\u00b4s no need to spends a lot of money in storage. Examples of great sites are Hulu<\/a>, Joost<\/a> and Babelgum<\/a> – disclosure: I’m an investor in Joost. Now my kids favorite is Hulu the online video joint venture from NBC and News Corp that offers streaming video of professional content like many popular TV shows.<\/p>\n

But due to issues regarding the rights of distribution, Hulu’s service is still accessible only in the United States, and anybody who is in Europe needs to use workarounds to watch its contents. One of these workarounds is using Hotspotshield<\/a>, a software that protects your data while accessing the Internet from a public place, driving all your traffic through a VPN<\/a>. As a side effect, it allows people from outside the US to watch Hulu<\/a> and access other services that are geolocked to the US, like video sites from TV networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX. So for many who don’t live in the States, watching streaming video on Hulu using software like Hotspotshield<\/a> or a proxy server<\/a> is already better then piracy. But to me the fact that kids are using Hotspotshield to watch Hulu outside the States proves that even when piracy is legal people prefer a great watching experience that includes ads than a laborious Pirate Bay type experience that does not.<\/p>\n

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While downloading TV series and movies is suprisingly legal in Spain for personal use and my kids used to be heavy downloaders, they have recently cut down a lot. They have not decreased their downloading activities because they had an ethical dilemma or because they were pestered by me. They almost stopped getting movies on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t