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Olympics to Have Live Online Coverage, But Not For Americans
Rytsarsky writes "According to this AP story (mirror), live video from the Olympics will be viewable online. However, 'the footage will be highly restricted to protect lucrative broadcast contracts, which are sold by territory - $793 million paid by NBC alone. Web sites must employ technology to block viewers from outside their home countries, so U.S. Web surfers won't benefit from the BBC's live coverage. They'll have to settle for highlights posted after NBC broadcasts, which are already largely tape-delayed.'" Interestingly, this AP wire story was picked up by CNN.com (it was at this URL and this URL), ran for a few hours, and now has been removed - I guess CNN didn't think it was newsworthy. *shrug*
They were right.
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Stickin' it to The Man whenever and wherever possible!
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Those preview and submit buttons are so close together. Now everyone thinks I can't even handle HTML.
Where do I return my geek card?
America has been wronged. The BBC clearly hates freedom. Effective noon tomorrow, we will be invading the small island nation of BBC. Their weapons of mass communication must be obliterated: if we can't have the Olympics, no one can.
Just use an open proxy in Europe and you'll be wathing the games live as well.
Shhh, you're going to hurt NBC's feelings.
You banned a user from using IE. Man your hard core. Go lynx...
You can give it--as well as all the other contents of your wallet--to me, the Wallet Inspector.
Why is anything anything?
Alright slashdotters! You just solved Katie Jones' domain name dispute. Where are you going next? To the Olympic coverage problem!!!
We can. If people will post Neighbours episodes, they'll most ;)
certainly give us sweaty athletes..nothing is below them
flip flopping @ slashdot ??? no, never, surely you jest.*
*note sarcasim here
For all the tinfoil, apparently.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Otherwise, maybe you could watching BBC live olympic coverage online too.
I don't think they will be streaming the Olympics over an IRC server...
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
"He's not fucking smart enough to think that we need to play perestroika with the Olympics"
Perhaps you meant 'glasnost'?
No no. Free has nothing to do with media coverage of an event. A free market causes control of the event by a single entity because they were willing to pay for it.
Free means that you can leave this country at your own will to watch them live in Athens.
So basically, you're paying to the corporations so they can stop you from accessing the things you want without paying them more. And the same with your government (DMCA, and those anti-P2P laws we all know will pass sooner or later).
I see Americans are honoring the heritage of robber barons :).
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
"...aren't most proxies open by mistake? And you'll get heavily fined (or worse) for using them? _ Lemme guess... you work for NBC?
10 Bits= $.25
100 Bits= $.50
110 Bits= $.75
1000 Bits= 1 byte
Come on, they can't offer live coverage, what if a terrorist showed a thigh on the screen ? Or if women were shown in skintight swimsuits ?
THINK OF THE CHILDREN !
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Bush knows exactly what he is doing.
I'm not going to stoop to calling him an
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point they are willing to put their vote down
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