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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*
That's why you check in advance whether the open proxy reveals the originating IP address or not.
If the proxy is slow, use another one. I do it all the time.
My home country's laws about alocohol advertising used to require advertisers to block all access to websites advertising alcoholic products produced in my country to the residents of the country. All foreigners could access the sites all they could. It really didn't take long to find an open proxy outside the borders to check out what was on the site (wasn't worth the effort).
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That's why you check in advance whether the open proxy reveals the originating IP address or not.
IRC servers check to see whether your connection is from an open proxy by connecting to it/portscanning; by definition IRC connections don't contain HTTP headers that reveal the originating IP address.
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It has always been so since the begining
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All the myths around Olympics ("to win is not important", "amateurs only", "the torch", "the olympic spirit") was invented by Pierre de Coubertin who founded the modern Olympic Games
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
'live' means while it happens. The bulk of Olympic events will take place during daylight hours in Greece. That's middle of the night in North America.
Folks who work regular hours, have families, etc. will only be able to appreciate video from the Olympics well after the events are over.
Unless I'm missing something, those folks outnumber night shift workers, kids with nothing better to do, and (gasp) geeks who decide not to visit the 'big room' because it's too bright. And by a wide margin.
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CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) normally shows the Olympics without a delay. I know this television channel is often available in the United States, especially those near the Canadian border.
Well this whole situation sucked 4 years ago. They are not even covering all events, and that means if they dont cover it, you CAN'T see it in USA.
Its fucking annoying.
I could not watch Tae Kwon Do last year because of this Bullshit.
WTF are the olympics about, profit?
Damn the IOC, and the money hearders.
I dont have such friends in foreign countries, except perhaps Canada, and i just have to be lucky to see it on Canadian channels...
ASS HOLES!
OK, so the BBC's output is heavily UK biased but that is understandable and expected. But,the BBC covered minority sports as well as the main ones. The coverage went out over two channels. There were hundreds of hours of LIVE coverage. (Almost ALL the US coverage was from tape and heavily edited.) How many of you from the US realise that there are eighteen hours a day of action from the games almost every day?
Was I glad to get back to the UK for the last three days of competition? Oh yes!
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