Summary: With the exception of language learning, even the most raving Japanophile will agree that Japanese TV is slightly less enjoyable than being sat on by a very fat and sweaty man, so what is a cheapo to do? Fortunately one can easily get round the location specific problems of connecting to popular TV station internet broadcasts or streaming sevices from back home like Netflix, BBC iplayer etc using a VPN. A VPN, which stands for virtual private network (amongst other things) allows one to connect to a website as if one is located somewhere else, e.g. you can use a British VPN to connect to BBC iPlayer, which will think you are inside the UK and therefore allow you to access all it's warez. So listen in to hear Greg's report on which VPN services suit a cheapo's needs best. Free VPNs mentioned in the podcast ProXPN (we kept calling it XPNpro in the podcast) VPNBook SecurityKISS And for the unix geeks If you have an ssh account on a server, you can use it to create an ssh tunnel to the country it is in. So, you create the ssh tunnel with this command: ssh -D 8080 -Nf
