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:

http://trog.qgl.org/up/1108/daily-show-wtf.jpg

"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:

http://trog.qgl.org/up/1201/modify-headers.jpg

Can't access it here either (TPG).

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

It's not on iView any more either. WHAT SORT OF HELL HAVE I WOKEN UP TO THIS SUNDAY MORNING?

Edit: from ABC: "We love the shows (Colbert as well) but we have lost the rights to show them.

As a public broadcaster we often do not have the money to compete again our commercial rivals and unfortunately in this instance we could not afford to retain the rights to these programs.

However we will continue to find great shows from Australia and around the world to showcase on ABC2 "

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

I think the Comedy Channel has got them now?

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

I think the Comedy Channel has got them now?

Yes, but they only show half the interview piece, the "we will throw it up on the web" cant be accessed due to geolocking.

Comedy Channel are c***s!

Grab the torrent? It's only 174meg to download.

Foxtel!

How many episodes are there per week ?
Foxtel has it on Mon-Fri nights but they seem to show a lot of repeats.

I love my 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™

I dont understand the logic behind this sort of thing.
People who want to watch it will Torrent it for free.
Why wouldnt you at least make some Ad revenue out of hosting it in Australia somewhere ?

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

Why wouldnt you at least make some Ad revenue out of hosting it in Australia somewhere ?

they were which is the strange thing, there were ads for australian products being served. so all I can assume is someones either bought the rights to FTA it, foxtel kicked up a stink, or they're mad as a hatter.

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

Who cares. Jon Stewart is Obamas court jester.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

what the eff is vpn?

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

or torrent

eztv ftw

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?

Been torrenting this since the changes to the website too. I do miss being able to watch the extended interviews though :C

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

Been torrenting this since the changes to the website too. I do miss being able to watch the extended interviews though :C

now you can with my handy tip above

Woot! Thanks dude, missed that tube video ><

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

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

Why?
What's to say you weren't travelling and made a purchase while you were overseas?

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 would say almost certainly not; it is a pretty cheezy hack and I'm surprised that it works.

Basically all it does is inserts a fake header in your browser request that tells the website that you are behind a proxy and that your "real" IP address is some random IP in the USA.

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.

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™

+1

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!

what days is this show new?

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

its not required, Superform... Took me about 1 minute of a youtube video and chrome open with firefox to get watching... good episode too.

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.

thanks for the link trog, watching colbert now.

Funny that they will still serve up Australian ads

s***. The X-Forwarded-For header trick has stopped working recently. Anyone know other neat little tricks short of US proxy?

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.

I researched appropriate VPN service, company with unlimited bandwidth and I found Super VPN ... They provide me IP address which I needed for watching online TV, playing games and more.. This is very good thing I must admit!

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.

Always wondered if using a VPN is on the same level as torrenting.

(nothing wrong with it when you can't get it!)

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?

Always wondered if using a VPN is on the same level as torrenting.

(nothing wrong with it when you can't get it!)

I guess you could say you're circumventing their protection methods and violating some sort of trade agreement. Like how you always see stuff that's "not for sale outside of the US" (usually electronics because they run on different transmission frequencies or some rubbish).

On that same 'is it legal/moral' question, what if you use an adblocker to block the adverts that appear in online videos? Is that illegal yet? I mean without those ads, the videos you're watching wouldn't be free so it's got to be like you're kicking a granny in the face and stealing her handbag right? I'm sure that's what they would have you believe.

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

Also regionalisation of the internet...f*** I hate you

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Maybe you are missing the point?

infi missing the point? Never.

Just remember that he seems to share a lot of political ideologies with dazed.

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

Finally figured this out, it's a change in Modify Headers - you need to 'start' it using the big button in the top left of the Modify Headers window.

You sir a legend.

Updated OP with a screenshot for those struggling

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 :)

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