How To: Watch Comedy Central Videos From Canada
UPDATE: Some visitors are reporting that this works for Hulu as well.
The relationship between Comedy Central and Canada’s Comedy Network is the worst example of what can happen when rights owners assert copyright on the internet, based on national borders. If you are not aware – like Hulu, TV.com and others – Comedy Central videos will not play in Canada, but it’s worse. ComedyCentral.com – the entire domain – is unavailable to Canadian IPs! When you try visit it, you are redirected to comedynetwork.ca.
I found a workaround to this buried in a comment thread on reddit. Firefox users only:
For Canadian viewers, if you are using firefox, install the following addon:
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 then:1) In Firefox, Go to tools->modify headers
2) From the drop down box on the left select add
3) Then enter: “X-Forwarded-For” in the first input box without the quotation marks
4) Enter: “12.13.14.15″ in the second input box without the quotation marks
5) Leave the last input box empty, and save the filter, and enable ithttp://imgur.com/Feb4.png
6) Click the ‘Configuration’ tab on the right then proceed to check the ‘always on’ button.
Close the Modify Headers box and it should work.
Works like a charm!
This is so easy and it works! Thank you SO much. Works with Colbert Nation videos too =)
worked great – thanks!
works for me in uk too! thank you
oh man! I read this comment on Reddit a while back at an Internet cafe, and haven’t been able to find it since!
YOU TOTALLY SAVE MY BORING DAYS IN CANADA… thanks that was very helpful ! God bless you !
Love you !..hehehe =op
Works great for comedy central. Though not so much for Hulu. Thanks for the solution anyway!
Not only is Comedy Central not available in Canada, it appears that Comedy Network is not available in the US! I just tried the link from here in Massachusetts and got told “You are not authorized to view this page” and “IP address of the client has been rejected.”
That is really creepy.
Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. The stupid rights agreements go both ways.
You have made me a happy, happy girl.
Two thumbs way up!
Simple but effective! Thanks, this works both for personal browsing and work related items!
It's ridiculous that we even have to resort to this. Australia's comedy channel isn't blocked in Canada, neither are UK channels like BBC (who just give you an option to choose the international page of your choice, or the regular UK version).
The fascists at Comedy Central and The Comedy Network should get together with Hitler and Stalin and go take a little communist holiday in North Korea, instead of trying to censor the internet to serve their own greed.
You rock
Thank you!!!
You're very welcome.
works for adult swim too
You have no idea (or maybe you do) how good this news is. THANK YOU.
Fracking Comedy Central.
Glad to help! I’m a little surprised this hole is still open after all this time.
Came across it via a commenter’s suggestion at Ed Brayton’s Dispatches from the Culture Wars. I’ve been looking for something like this for many months; proxies never worked. This was a godsend. ★
cool beans.