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bricestacey on Jan 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let’s Talk Piracy & “The Simp...

I am not sure if it's possible on Roku, but on Boxee you could get around these lame restrictions by spoofing your user-agent.

dangrossman on Jan 23, 2012 [–]

That worked on Google TV boxes for a week or two, years ago. Then they blocked it by the Flash player ID string embedded in the browser, so user agent spoofing doesn't work anymore.

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