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How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - Todd's keyboard - 08-31-2013
My wife ordered me the new Bob Dylan album (Bootleg Series #10) from Amazon. Won't receive the package until next week. Amazon includes a digital download for customers who purchase the actual CDs. However, the downloads only work for US customers. Any thoughts on how I can make my Internet connection to Amazon look like it originates from the US?
As it turns out, the order will be shipped to our cottage in the US, and paid for with a US credit card. The only glitch is the Internet connection is in Canada.
thanks, Todd's north-of-the-border keyboard
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - pRICE cUBE - 08-31-2013
You need a VPN service but that might cost more than it is worth. Maybe give the login to a trusted us friend and have them drop the files into online storage?
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - space-time - 08-31-2013
either VPN or someone you can trust in the US; give the password, have them download it, upload to a dropbox, and then change password.
P.S. I have a Mac Mini unused which I am about to nuke and pave to make a media server. if you want, I could install log me in, let you use it today and tomorrow to download your stuff and upload to a dropbox, then I will nuke it. I won't even see your password. You would need to install dropbox as it is not installed. hopefully you don't send terrorist threats from my Mini
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - yeoman - 08-31-2013
This will do it for you:
https://www.witopia.net
Useful when travelling or if you want to watch the Beeb with iPlayer.
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - Filliam H. Muffman - 08-31-2013
It used to be that you could use one of about 2000 free and anonymizing proxy servers but that started dying out about 5 years ago.
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - onthedownlow - 08-31-2013
There are still a lot of free proxy services and IPs you can set up on your own.
I use a VPN that gets me to many places in the world. It is crazy to log in to Netflix, etc. and see what 'better' Hollywood movies are available to non-US customers
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - Todd's keyboard - 08-31-2013
Thanks for the suggestions. I will follow up on some of them.
In the interim, space-time is my new hero. Going above and beyond, space-time let me take over her/his mac mini (after several unsuccessful attempts at using logmein) and download the files.
Turns out they were on my wife's Amazon account, not mine, so it took several attempts to get the results.
It was a bit frustrating at times, and the space-time was there to help guide me through unknown waters.
thanks again, Todd's growth-mindset, not fixed-mindset keyboard
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - space-time - 08-31-2013
LOL, now install dropbox and upload your files.
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - Paul F. - 08-31-2013
You know, space-time, you could probably set up a nice little paying gig with that Mini, and, say, a nice little spot for it someplace offshore.... say, Romania...
Not a BIG operation, mind you.. just a few customers... nice and discreet...
Re: How might I fool Amazon into thinking I have a US Internet connection? - space-time - 08-31-2013
what are you suggesting, Paul? that everyone in Romania is a hacker? not really. quite the opposite, most people don't own computers.
BTW: I am definitely not a hacker. I stumbled upon a security hole at a major company some of us deal with (I posted about this last summer) and I haven't even tried since then to see if they plugged the hole or not. I hope they did. But that was pure luck, a combination of hardware and software that normally should not happen.