[parham90]

Well, I'm not doing anything political, so no one will catch me and kill me. I'm using it for exactly the same reasons as you, namely that the United States won't let me view some content, listen to some music and stuff. Even though I have to pay illegally to access this content (which is when I use my Canadian IP), I still am paying for them and must be able to use them.

[chris_wot]

How do you pay? Credit cards are normally issued from a geographic region and you need ID to get one in another country due to AML measures...

[parham90]

I used another friend's credit card. There are some services here where some guy in another country who is originally Iranian will charge a fee to take your Iranian Rials and send them to a PayPal account, or go and pay for a service on another website on your behalf.

It costs extra money, but oh well. It's better than staying ignorant and not being able to improve and learn more.

[chris_wot]

So I need to convert AUD to USD to Rials and send them to an Iranian guy in the U.S. to pay for a Netflix account with a third party U.S. credit card and then figure out how to proxy my way through someone's U.S. Internet connection via a SOCKS5 proxy.

What could possibly go wrong? :-)

[parham90]

LOL!

When you put it like this, it seems very impossible. But I've been doing the second part of it for two years, so if you need any help with that, just let me know. Haha.

[chris_wot]

Australia has a policy of capturing all metadata from ISPs. I suspect I might actually be more at risk of getting a knock on the door from our security agencies than you would be. And if I'm suspected of terrorism I can be held in jail for seven days without charge on a continually renewing basis.

Don't think I'll risk it :-(

[pjc50]

Australia is not going to arrest you for using a proxy, unless you're using it to do something else illegal. Let's be realistic about the relative threat level in Australia vs Iran.

[parham90]

Ouch. No. Don't. :-)