How to view Hulu videos outside the US

posted on January 5th, 2008


If you want to view the videos on hulu.com, or on sites that embed hulu videos outside the United States you’ll get the following message:

If you want to view them, you either need to move to the states or use a slow proxy, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. You can view those video’s at normal speeds (aka. about the same as you max internet speed) with a free program called Hotspot Shield. The name may sound a little bit strange in this context, and it isn’t made for this purpose, though it works perfectly. Hotspot Shield will create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which prevents hulu to see that you’re outside the sites, while it doesn’t decrease your internet connetion speed! To install it, just follow the instructions on http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/ and you’ll be able to see those hulu videos within a few minutes!

And as you maybe already guessed, this works for all US-only sites (so you can finally use Pandora again)!

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5 comments:

  1. Pandora and Hulu Hack for Non-US Citizens said on January 5th, 2008 at 4:03 am :

    […] way, Mashable reader Denis Hiller sent in this tip-off of something profiled at CoolBlog: a tool called Hotspot Shield. The program works to create a Virtual Private Network (VPM) that […]

  2. HowTo: Usar Hulu y Pandora fuera de USA | unblogged. A blog about nothing. Yeah, nothing said on January 5th, 2008 at 4:29 am :

    […] Hiller, lector de Mashable; manda un tip que apareció en  CoolBlog: una herramienta llamada Hotspot […]

  3. Bryce said on January 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am :

    Wow, thanks :)

  4. duro said on January 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm :

    THANKS, IT REALLY WORKS!!! finally i can watch hulu…from Slovakia… :)

  5. Nina said on January 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am :

    Thank you so much. Being in the military stationed overseas I now have a way to watch my shows that I love and miss so much! Thanks for posting this!

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