How to get over restrictions based on IP

Sites like YouTube, Amazon Video On Demand, other sites which stream live TV shows set up this restriction based on users location. The idea is ‘Its ILLEGAL for you to see the video that is not released in your country ’ . In order to bypass this restriction, you need an IP address from that country.

If you do not want to spend a dime. The ‘free & best’ way would be to get an EC2 instance or a cheap hosting service and setup ssh on the host and run

ssh -D 12345 user@host.com # HTTP Proxy via SSH

and point your SOCKS 5 proxy in Firefox to localhost:12345 and browse the websites as a user of the country (your host) is from.