internets question

[PINT of Stella, mate!]

Howdy, folks. Got a wee quandary for you all. I'm back in the UK and wanting to watch Newstopia. Now SBS put their episodes up on their website for a week after airing but I've now just found out that this is only available inside Australia. How do I get around this? Are there any websites out there that can act as an australian 'backdoor' (in the same way as there are websites that allow you to dodge workplace filters etc) or will I have to just cross my fingers and hope some kind soul puts the episodes up on Youtube (someone did this for most of the 1st series but there's been no action since)

any ideas?

[Dicky]

www.sbs.com.au doesn't work...?

Then again, maybe the auto-redirect picks up my IP. Give this link (http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html) a try.

[Spike-X]

He just said it doesn't work outside of Australia.

I've had similar problems with trying to access material on US or UK websites (Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who - yes, I'm a nerd!). TV companies still don't seem to get the idea of the World Wide Web.

[scblack]

TV companies still don't seem to get the idea of the World Wide Web.
I would say they DO get it, and thats why you can't see it.;)

The broadcaster in each country would have distribution rights over material in that country.

[n00b]

Proxy website? trick them into thinking your in Aus...

[|Matt|]

How big are the episodes.

If they aren't huge, I'll download them and then upload them somewhere for you.

[PINT of Stella, mate!]

I've had a look for proxy websites and found some in Australia but it appears you need to be some kind of IT genius to use them.

I find the overseas distribution idea a bit daft in this case. Newstopia has way too many australian content and is far too topical (i.e episodes are pretty much out of date a week after they're broadcast) to sell overseas, so why restrict it? If anything, broadcasting it on the net would help lift the profile of SBS internationally!

As for the file size, I'm not too sure. it's streamed from their site in low-medium quality and it's only half-hour a show so probably not too big. THere was a chick who placed every episode of the first series on youtube in 3-part instalments but she appears to be away in china with her school and can't do it for this series (I read all the comments on the last episode - there was enough demand from people like myself for her to actually log-on and explain the situation!) IF somebody could put episodes up on YT they'd be pretty popular amongst a lot of Aussie ex-pats.