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NBC To Live Stream Olympics Event

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to Broadcasting Cable, NBC is going to stream the gold medal Men's hockey game live on the NBC Olympics web site. This is in preparation for (hopefully) many more live feeds throughout the year. The video stream will have DRM and IP protection to attempt to limit access to residents of the US, like the other event video on the site. With the stream served by Akamai's CDN, it will be interesting to see if it can sustain the load. The game starts around 8:00am EST on Sunday, Feb 26 if you are interested in checking it out."

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  1. DRM, IP protection????? by presarioD · · Score: 2, Funny
    1. Enable proxy
    2. mplayer -dumpfile Olympics.wmv -dumpstream -playlist "http://NBC.sucks/Olympics-DRMed-don't touch-Americans only.wmv"
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  2. Re:Medal Not Metal by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


    It's the Winter Olympics. The fun is watching them getting their tongues stuck to their metals.

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  3. Re:BBC by cdrudge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Excuse me. This is an American-centric forum. Please don't bring up irrelevant facts that others have been doing this for some time now.

  4. Re:Free streaming by ramunas · · Score: 2, Funny

    you bastard! I was watching that. How am I supposed to watch it now that the slashdot crowd stampedes the site?

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