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There have been some questions in the tennis newsgroups about how to watch the French Open (and the upcoming Wimbledon tourament) without being detected. For anyone that might some here to ask, I have a simple three-word answer:
subscription anonymity service
These services that are sprouting up like weeds effectively make even the best firewall solutions moot. Whether you are tuning in to us, or one of our competitors, all you have to do is subscribe to the service, and usually download a small piece of software to your computer. Unless open relays, "free" anonymity services (like Tor), or using someone's misconfigured proxy server, these services provide much more stable connections, that will not constantly re-buffer, and that are also virtually undetectable. Many services, including the one I subscribe to now, also offer encryption through the proxy network. That means, if you want to watch/listen to French Open tennis, the boss will not know what you are up to, becuase many services have their own proprietary encryption algorithms, which cannot be compromised via "man in the middle" attacks. Because of the way that some of the more sophisticated P2P proxing services work, IT admins will be playing "whack a mole" trying to stop it, because it uses multiple addresses and multiple ports all over the place. As such services grow in popularity, it will drive corporate network admins INSANE trying to stop it.