NBC To Live Stream Olympics Event

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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anyone else?

[SuperBanana]

The video stream will have DRM and IP protection to attempt to limit access to residents of the US

Raise your hand if you're:

• Tired of the location Olympic games being picked based on a bribe-fest (with your tax dollars as the ante money)
• Tired of your tax dollars going towards facilities that most often are never used again
• Tired of being shown only the most 'marketable' events or not seeing them at all, because only one news source is granted "rights"
• Tired of the drama
• Tired of people who happen to be good at a particular sport getting acts of congress to instantly give them citizenship while hard-working, tax-paying greencarders have to wait years and pass exams
• Tired of the olympic committee getting special legislation to protect its interests and giving it the ability to shut down businesses simply because they contain the word "olympic" in their title
• Tired of the drug scandals and an IOC obviously looking the other way, like virtually every other major sports sanctioning body
• Tired of "for the sport" or "for the joy of competition" having turned into "for the money", right down to the recent decision by the IOC to allow athletes to be paid endorsements and more

The list goes on...and don't get me started about the sex-fests that go on in the olympic "village"; ever wonder why the media isn't allowed in? It's for "privacy" all right...

Used to be that when the olympics came on in the winter, we'd fire up the TV, make popcorn, and watch. We stopped watching right around the same time they started doing 10 minute long fluff pieces about athletes, instead of just showing us the damn competitions.