Veoh is a San Diego, California-based company which runs an Internet Television service allowing users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material for free. However, as of 31st May 2008, many countries such as Malaysia, Cyprus, Romania, Panama, Hungary, Slovenia, Kuwait, Brunei, Indonesia, Chile, Malta, Thailand, Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine, Colombia, Bangladesh has been blocked due to a low concentration of users.

Try accessing veoh.com and you’ll get a message that says “Veoh is no longer available in COUNTRY. If you are not in COUNTRY or you think you have received this message in error, please report the issue below“. That’s all we that we see if our country is being blocked by Veoh! Nothing else!

Veoh is no longer available in Malaysia

I felt that Veoh is very harsh in blocking visitors according to country without providing any warning or notification first. It is very easy for Veoh to block visitor’s geographical location but it is also easy for us to continue accessing and watching Internet TV in Veoh even if we’re blocked.

I don’t watch much TV but one of my cousin asked me if there’s a way to continue watching a Korean drama from Veoh which she has been following for a long time. In my knowledge, to bypass country blocking restriction is to mask your IP address using proxy or VPN.

At first I tried web based proxy service such as anonymouse.org, but all I got was a similar screen saying “Veoh is no longer available in Anonymous Proxy”. Looks like not only they’ve blocked countries but also well known proxy web sites. Some other not so well known web proxy service such as privax.us and glype.com is able to let you access Veoh.com without getting the message that says Veoh is no longer available in MALAYSIA.

Using open public proxy which you enter the IP address and Port into your browser also works but it’s very slow. You have to work hard to find a fast proxy which belongs to a country (preferably US) that is not blocked by Veoh. Here’s a site called CyberSyndrome that updates the list of proxy every hour.

I found out that there is a way to directly access Veoh.com without using proxy. Normally veoh’s link is http://appserver.veoh.com but if you add two L’s with a hyphen in-front of appserver link, you can access the site without problems. The link will be http://ll-appserver.veoh.com/

You can access everything in Veoh.com through ll-appserver but the video won’t play. The most it will play up to 2 seconds and stop. To play the videos, you’ll need to use a VPN service such as Hotspot Shield. Perhaps you already know about this software because it has been posted at raymond.cc before. After installing Hotspot Shield, get connected, I can access Veoh.com and also watch the videos. You can see at the image below that I am watching the latest Survivor episode from Veoh.

Veoh is no longer available in malaysia

Hotspot Shield currently works but it can also be easily blocked by Veoh if they want to. Another problem with Hotspot Shield is the 5GB bandwidth limit per month. If you go over it, you’ll get the error Bandwidth Limit Exceeded and will have to wait for next month until the bandwidth to reset.

If you’re willing to fork out a bit of money for VPN service, make sure that the VPN server belongs to country such as US and also it doesn’t being flagged as Anonymous Proxy by Veoh. I have a VPN account at WiTopia and the IP address I get is a US one but it doesn’t work on Veoh as I get the message “Veoh is no longer available in Anonymous Proxy”. So make sure you that you’ve inquired from the company before purchasing their VPN service. You can also find cheaper VPN service at DigitalPoint Buy, Sell or Trade forum but I’d advice you to only sign up for short term as most of them do not even have a proper VPN company website.

Update: If you are unable to connect using Hotspot Shield and getting Pulling Options page looping, Daemon Start Error or Bandwidth Exceeded, please refer to this article for a fix.

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