What's the big idea? I was able to watch the first two episodes online, but when the third came out I was greeted by a nasty little message that said "Sorry this is not available to users outside the UK"...

Don't want a broad fan base? Kind of a let down if you ask me, only LOGICAL reason I can think of is maybe a show licensing issue?

Ah well..not like it's not flooded all over the net anyways just have to wait a day or two.

I totally agree. I've tried everything and I did manage to get the link by using a .uk based public proxy but the mms-link just don't work through web proxies.

what the *uck????

And the prize for the least helpful response of the day goes to the person behind the name "itfun".

The link published is mms://edge.channel4.com/theitcrowd/episode3.wmv

Which is, at least, not working outside the UK and I haven't seen any proof that it works inside the UK either.

I did the same, sort of, I just got someone in a UK channel on IRC to give me the direct MMS link but no go...Very dissapointing...

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Originally posted by smijy:
I did the same, sort of, I just got someone in a UK channel on IRC to give me the direct MMS link but no go...Very dissapointing...

Well, if someone in the UK could use a program like "Stream Down" and download episode 3 and then make it available somehow it would be most appriciated. (hint, hint)... However C4 may not agree.

C4 can disagree all they want, it's already on bittorents

But it's still the fact that they would restrict it outside of the UK. And from reading threads on this forum, it seems they could use all the fans they can get, alot of negative response from this show...But not from me, (I'm Canadian) and I happen to love the show.

I've "Heard" from "Someone" that they already streamed the first two episodes...

Well, I've heard that I may allready have found and downloaded the first two episodes and that episode 3 is the one I am looking for. But what do I know... That is just something I've heard. It may not be true.

I have found ep3 on torrents, just search it.

I also just sent an E-Mail to C4.

Why has C4 blocked users from outside the UK from accessing the site.
I live in ireland and the show it being advertised on the radio and tv here all the time.
Seems kinda strange that C4 can have an audience in ireland, advertise in ireland produce a show writen by an irishman and starring an irishman and then not allow any irish people to view it online.

Regarding the mms:// link, I'm not using the latest version of Windows Media Player so it doesn't work for me either.

However, if you copy the URL, change mms: to http: and paste it into WMPs File->Open Url box it seems to work fine.

I'm a bit surprised that it's not available outside the UK, especially as the first two episodes survived an article on Slashdot which has a mainly US readership.

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Originally posted by Dave_B:
Why has C4 blocked users from outside the UK from accessing the site.
I live in ireland and the show it being advertised on the radio and tv here all the time.
Seems kinda strange that C4 can have an audience in ireland, advertise in ireland produce a show writen by an irishman and starring an irishman and then not allow any irish people to view it online.

Its a problem with the website, its not physically there..... I personally think they have missed spelled the file name, or put the URL in correctly... Someone must have uploaded it before they put the link up

todstein got the 3rd episode working, there was infact a spelling mistake within the URL... no _ ,

To get it, try one of these two URLs:-

http://edge.channel4.com/theitcrowd/episode_3.wmv
mms://edge.channel4.com/theitcrowd/episode_3.wmv

Warning i got a security update installed, so this may mean that people outside the UK may not be able to view it.

Thanks todstein

It is not a problem with the url. I cant even get to the page that has the links on it. I get this message "We're sorry, but users outside the UK cannot access The IT Crowd."

Go figure!!!

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Originally posted by morphedparadox:

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Originally posted by Dave_B:
Why has C4 blocked users from outside the UK from accessing the site.
I live in ireland and the show it being advertised on the radio and tv here all the time.
Seems kinda strange that C4 can have an audience in ireland, advertise in ireland produce a show writen by an irishman and starring an irishman and then not allow any irish people to view it online.

Its a problem with the website, its not physically there..... I personally think they have missed spelled the file name, or put the URL in correctly... Someone must have uploaded it before they put the link up

Yeah, there has been an offical word from C4 saying that they screwed up with the first two episodes, and they arn't actually allowed to show it outside the UK, its on the forums somewhere....

How can you not be allowed to show it outside of the UK? Copyright problems? If it's on the internet it should be allowed to be distributed to everyone. Otherwise you'll accually lose people that maybe interested if you start to run ads and such. Also use a britsh proxy or find a british friend. that's what i did for ep 3. Well accually that was what i was doing until i found a DRM-free verson since i use linux and mplayer doesn't like DRM.

Sneaky lol... By "find a british friend" i hope you mean get them to download it for you, and you know, not go through there PC

Problems downloading.... hmmm.... have you tried switching it off and on again? ..... is it plugged in?