Lyndon LaRouche wrote:
Welcome to 2012
1. VPN - $75/yr and you can watch live Olympic streaming from UK.
2. Netflix &/or Hulu - $15/month and you get all the latest shows.
3. Digital antenna. Receive local news for free.
You do not need cable TV. It is right up there w/ a landline - an ancient relic marketers try to convince you is necessary.
joho wrote:
Can you explain the VPN thing?
http://www.hidemyass.comThey operate servers in 31 countries worldwide. You connect to your local ISP, which then sends packets to the server you choose (say the UK). An encrypted secure connection is established w/ this remote server, which then touches the rest of the internet.
So your ISP sees encrypted traffic, and does not know what it is from or where it is going - they have no record of your activity. If you access BBC from the US via a UK server, you establish an encrypted connection with the UK server. Your ISP just sees your machine saying, "send this gobbleddy goo to this UK address". And this same stream of nonsense is sent from the UK server to your machine, but nobody can read it except you. The signal goes from the BBC servers, to the UK servers, is encrypted, and sent to your machine.
Cost is $75/yr, works on your PC, phone, etc.