X-No-Archive: Yes
in
However, I have started using an open Socks 5 proxy server. They would know I was going to the Socks server, but what I did beyond that, would not be know. It is one of a number of public proxies run by a group known as PlanetLab. It is the same one in England I use to cirucmvent the restrictions that radio stations in Britain have been forced to imopose restricting listenership to IP addresses in Brtain. It looks to the radio stations like I am coming from Britain, so I get the streams, even though I am not supposed to be able to receive them in America. Capital FM Radio, in London, has no idea that there is someone in America is listening to their online broadcasts, on a regular basis, because to their servers and logs, it looks like I am connecting to their site fron within the UK. I have done that to evade geographic restrictions for streaming of Olympic events for the 1998, 2000,
2002, 2004, and 2006 Olympics. By using the PlanetLab proxies in England, I was able to listen to the Eurosport stream, though it was only supposed to be heard by people at European IP addresses. Eurosport had no idea that anyone from America was connecting to their servers during the period of "Olympic restrictions", on their broadcast. And besides, as I have already said, it appears to have been a technical glitch, as I was suddenly able to connect, today, without having to go through the proxy. But if they ever did decide to block it on a permenent basis, I could still connect with SocksCap and an open Socks proxy server. SocksCap can handle the Studio 365 live software (not all software works with SocksCap). But as for people on Cox, who appears to be blocking access to some Live365 streams, you can circumvent that, as one listener did, but using an open proxy outside the Cox network. This one listener did so, and had problems connecting to my show, even though Cox in Las Vegas apparently was trying to block it (and a few other Live 365 streams as well). Cox would know she went to a proxy, but would have no idea what where she went beyond that proxy server.