Circumventing mlb.tv blackout rules

by abrewerskindofblue on Apr 17, 2009 5:21 PM CDT

As a non-possessor of cable, I got upset at being unable to watch Brewers games despite having a subscription to mlb.tv.

That is, until I discovered the following link...

http://www.howcast.com/guides/2094-How-To-Use-a-Proxy-To-Watch-BlackedOut-Games-on-MLBTV

For full disclosure, I haven't yet used it (just discovered today, Brewers don't play for another hour), but from my readings, it should work just fine.

Good luck.

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Don't do anything else on the web during the game

There’s nothing stopping any of these free web proxy services from capturing all your web traffic while you’re using it. Better still, install a second browser and use one for mlb.tv and one for everything else. This goes double if you proxy SSL traffic, since the unknown proxy owner will be able to harvest all your “secure” traffic, too.

by Marty McSuperFly on Apr 17, 2009 5:31 PM CDT reply actions

And good luck finding an open proxy that can actually handle the high bandwidth necessary...

by Zeyes on Apr 17, 2009 5:54 PM CDT reply actions

It's actually ok

This year, the app seems to verify location via a web request, and then streams on a different port. So, the big bandwidth doesn’t go through the proxy.

The problem is sending your traffic through an unknown proxy.

by Marty McSuperFly on Apr 17, 2009 6:01 PM CDT up reply actions

You only need to have the proxy on when you log in...

They only check your location at that point, afterwards you can turn it off and go back to normal.

by warwick5s on Apr 17, 2009 11:38 PM CDT reply actions

How?

On that site the only proxys i see are url’s not ip adresses, is that what you guys are using? if so, how?

Thanks

by newbie695 on Apr 19, 2009 10:19 AM CDT reply actions

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