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Streaming March Madness On Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the when-you-can-snatch-this-pebble-from-my-hand dept.

neersign writes "March Madness is here and NCAA.com is streaming all of the games over the internet for free. The downside is they are using Microsoft technologies to do so. The standard player lists Windows XP/Vista, IE6, and WMP 9 as the base requirements. The High Quality Video Player requires Silverlight 2. So my question is: how would a Linux user be able to work around these requirements and watch the games?"

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  1. If you could make it work under Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then you would be watching sports which would make you not a Linux user.

    *computer explodes from the incongruity*

  2. Re:Faggots by codemachine · · Score: 4, Informative

    SIlverlight 2.0 is only supported on Intel Macs. So any PPC Mac owners are screwed.

    So are people with another platform without a Silverlight implementation, such as Linux, BSD, Nintendo Wii, Playstation, your phone, etc...