gizbun wrote: > I'm wondering if I can get the French channels. It says it gives you > channels based on your IP address. Anybody got any idea how I can spoof > an IP address to achieve this?
"Spoof"ing an IP address is phrase used to describe a specialised hacker technique that wouldn't be helpful in this instance. Instead, you could proxy your traffic through server in France. You could rent a VPS hosted in Paris, then use SSH tunnels or other proxying software to proxy all your traffic through that server. Bear in mind that (if I'm reading the documentation correctly) Zattoo checks the nationality of your IP address every time it starts. It isn't just a case of creating a nationalised login; you need to have the national IP every time you use it, so you'd have to be running the proxying stuff every time you There's an interesting analysis of Zattoo's legal status here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/swiss_uk_tv_ripoff/ Basically they don't have agreements with the broadcasters (BBC etc) to retransmit the channels. Instead they are relying on a loophole in the Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 which was written to allow cable rebroadcast of TV signals to areas that couldn't get decent VHF/UHF TV reception. Zattoo's use of loophole was exposed a year ago, and the BBC et al still haven't kicked up much of a fuss, so Zattoo may be out of the woods. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
