Thats nothing. I use a VPN everyday for my company's cloud based accounting system. My entire department is staffed by pirates.
The BBC is Tone Deaf .... With the revelations that the NSA and the GCHQ are basically tapping THE WORLD how the expletive do they NOT expect ... The World ... to start using VPN?
You can buy a year subscription to privateinternetaccess for something like $35, you can pay with bitcoin, and you can use it on PC, linux, and android and presumably iOS and mac. And there are others but that's what I got, just for kicks. It even comes with a DEDICATED PROXY that you can plug into uTorrent. HA HA HA. and it works. It all works seamlessly and reliably and very very fastly.
But of course I've only downloaded linux distros with it and not top gear episodes.
VPN are only going to get more commonplace for every day internet using. Because screw you, NSA.