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BBC to Trial Worldwide Multicast Streaming?
An anonymous reader writes "There are tantalizing hints, via The Inquirer, and other tech news sites, that the BBC may extend its multicast streaming services to non-UK citizens, for material where rights allows. There's details about how ISPs may peer to join the multicast trial network on an official BBC page." We previously covered the BBC's multicast streaming of the Olympics, unfortunately not available in the U.S.
What is to stop someone from using a proxy from the UK? If porn can't stop proxies, what makes BBC think they can? LOL.
With BBC Sport providing more than 1,200 hours of coverage on the web, you can make sure you do not miss out on your favourite events from the world's biggest sporting extravaganza.
I am just tossing out this thought. Most countries sign a "cease hostilities" agreement paper for the duration of the olympics. How about if corporations also validated the purity of what the olypics are and not limit coverage by advertising or broadcasting rights. 1200 hours is alot. If NBC thinks basketball will have a large viewing audiance, then black that out. But why black out everything from the internet?
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Do I see a pattern here?
Streaming internet video,
---not available in the US.
Free-to-Air DVB satellite
---not available in the US
Cheap Broadband
---not available in the US
DMCA chip free inkjet cartridges
---not available in the US
Region code free DVD players
---not available in the US
Looks like Asia and Europe are quickly becoming the new lands of the free. Funny how all we hear about in the US is how oppressive it is outside our heavily guarded borders.