Many broadcasting companies now provide TV shows over the Internet but you’re unable to watch most of them unless you live in their country of origin. For example, you can’t watch Hulu unless you live in the United States, you can’t watch BBC iPlayer unless you live in the United Kingdom and you can’t use [...]
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Watch TV from all over the world via the Internet
Posted by arcana on December 12th, 2009
Posted in Computers 
Tags: Big Brother, Eircom, government snooping, hulu, internet privacy, iPlayer, ITV Player, proxy servers, RTE Player, TV3, TV4, vpn 
No Comments »Spying begins on UK web users
Posted by arcana on December 12th, 2009
From New Scientist We reported last week on plans to enforce copyright law by forcing internet service providers to spy on consumers to detect and report every piece of copied music, movies, e-books, games and software. Now one UK ISP, Virgin Media, is trialling some of the technology needed to do that on about 1.6 [...]
Extent of UK snooping revealed
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Friday, 16 May, 2003, 16:51 GMT 17:51 UK at BBC News. Officials in the UK are routinely demanding huge quantities of information about what people do online and who they call, say privacy experts. Police and other officials are making around a million requests for access to data held by net and [...]
Switch on for state snooping
Posted by arcana on November 29th, 2009
Originally posted on Wednesday, 17 July, 2002, 09:15 GMT 10:15 UK at BBC News. From August net service providers in the UK will be obliged to carry out surveillance of some customers’ web habits on behalf of the police. Controversial laws passed in 2000 oblige large communications companies to install technology that allows one in [...]
