How to Bypass MLB.tv Blackouts and watch Baltimore Orioles
How to Bypass MLB.tv Blackouts and watch Baltimore Orioles
If you are a baseball fan, I’m sure you are frustrated by MLB.tv ‘s blackout policy. Basically, you will not be able to watch your home team using MLB.tv. For Canadian, all Blue Jays games are blocked in Canada.
Why MLB.TV Blackouts Your Local Team
MLB.tv allows viewers to watch any baseball game, with the catch that you can’t watch your team within its coverage area. This restriction limits the promise of MLB.tv, rendering it useless to fans who live in the same cities as their favorite teams.
Major League Baseball's blackout policy says any game in your "home television territory" will be blacked out whether the team is playing at home or away. You can not watch the game live, but MLB.TV will offer the game in its archives roughly 90 minutes after the game is over.
It doesn't seem right, does it? You pay more than $100 for the MLB.TV package so it would only seem fair that you would get all the games, particularly your home team. But here's the method behind MLB's madness.
Your local regional sports channel -- in this case, MASN, which airs both the Nationals and the Orioles -- pays a significant amount of money for the rights to broadcast those games. It wants you to watch the game on its channel, not a baseball package.
If people are watching the game via a pay package, the ratings for the regional channel will decline and it won't be able to charge as much for commercials.
Regular Season Local Live Blackout: All live games on MLB.TV and available through MLB.com At Bat are subject to local blackouts. Such live games will be blacked out in each applicable Club's home television territory, regardless of whether that Club is playing at home or away.Thankfully, they provide a link to a page to figure out if I’m in the blackout area. It states: “To find out which Club’s live games are blacked out in your current location, click here.” Here’s what I see after following that link:
How to bypass MLB.TV Blackouts Stream Live With A VPN
"How does MLB.tv know where I am located" you might wonder. MLB.tv accomplishes this by looking at your IP address. Every computer with a connection has an IP address.
Blocking MLB games from a live stream to selected audiences is accomplished through geo-restriction, or geo-blocking. This is a simple method of restricting access based on IP address. When you attempt to stream the game from the US or Canada, your IP reveals that you are in this location and your access is denied.
For unlocking web based streaming services like MLB TV, VPNs are considered better than proxies. That’s because a VPN is able to deliver true anonymity (without leaking IP address) and high speeds that are essential for accessing web based streaming services. On the other hand, proxies are notoriously slow plus they may even leak your real IP address so content providers like MLB can easily block you from accessing MLB TV.
Subscribe to a VPN service which provides non-US or multiple US IP addresses. To unlock MLB TV.Next you need to configure your network settings or install the VPN client based on the information provided by your VPN provider. For mobile devices, no installation is needed and you just need to modify few network settings.Choose a US VPN server that is not from the two states whose teams are playing the games. In case your VPN provider doesn’t offer such a server, choose an IP address from a different country.
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