- the people flaming the poster have no idea how any of this works
- this post had nothing to do with blocking of software. case in point, we’ve blocked content and I ran into this post a year after the fact
- the reason services get blocked is because all the people flaming using these proxies services overuse the service and make said relay service an obvious proxy because the number of concurrent users is WAY above a normal use footprint.
- such blocking methods are automated in intelligent networks as antiddos/rpf mechanisms. they aren’t specific to any one proxy network.

in reality the massive use of any given product would show as a botnet attack or mirroring attempt and automatically be shutdown. reporting about it after the fact has zero impact on it being blocked.

Think about it – who’s most likely to put a spanner in the works of the process of getting Hulu involved in the international market? Hulu or the numerous content providers?

If Hulu comes to the UK bang goes a lot of the revenue that the content providers could get from TV licencing, Sky subscriptions, Virgin Media Subscriptions etc.

Of course that’s in the short term and in the long term they have a lot to gain from something like Hulu (or, on the music front, Pandora which is another service that I’d otherwise not be able to get if it weren’t for Hotspot) but of course the likes of the RIAA and the MPAA (and associated international organisations) don’t see that.

So stop moaning about Hulu and start complaining to someone (MPs – industry fat cats – artists who don’t get the massive cut that the fat cats do and are strong potential allies, especially in the music industry) about the stranglehold that the recording and movie industries have on their content which they use to stifle creativity and reasonable freedom of content.

America has greater choice of what they can easily view on the Internet because Americans don’t take crap from anybody. In that respect we should learn from their example.