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How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by w1ntermute »

streptomycin wrote: post #9
w1ntermute wrote: post #5

This seems pointless. If you're going to watch BBC content without paying their licensing fee, you might as well torrent it - that way you're not using up their bandwidth.

Where are these torrents, with high quality video posted in near real time? EDIT: I'm half serious, I wouldn't mind seeing Phelps lose, I missed it live. I'm an American, the NBC video website doesn't let me log in for some reason even though I have a valid account that worked yesterday (no error message, it just brings me back to the login screen every time), and they seem to be scrubbing YouTube quite well.

My private tracker has 720p recordings of events 10-15 minutes after they end.

Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by streptomycin »

w1ntermute wrote: post #11
streptomycin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are these torrents, with high quality video posted in near real time? EDIT: I'm half serious, I wouldn't mind seeing Phelps lose, I missed it live. I'm an American, the NBC video website doesn't let me log in for some reason even though I have a valid account that worked yesterday (no error message, it just brings me back to the login screen every time), and they seem to be scrubbing YouTube quite well.

My private tracker has 720p recordings of events 10-15 minutes after they end.

So when you said "this seems pointless", you meant "this seems pointless if you have access to some particular private bittorrent tracker". I trust you can see the difference there :)

Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by w1ntermute »

streptomycin wrote: post #14
w1ntermute wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My private tracker has 720p recordings of events 10-15 minutes after they end.

So when you said "this seems pointless", you meant "this seems pointless if you have access to some particular private bittorrent tracker". I trust you can see the difference there :)

Getting access to a private tracker isn't that hard, and you can probably find the stuff on EZTV anyway.

Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by mbell »

w1ntermute wrote: post #5

This seems pointless. If you're going to watch BBC content without paying their licensing fee, you might as well torrent it - that way you're not using up their bandwidth.

> This seems pointless. If you're going to watch BBC content without paying their licensing fee, you might as well torrent it - that way you're not using up their bandwidth.

I would happily pay them for access, the problem is that being in the US I quite literally can't. If there was a "pay $50 for live steaming of the olympics" button I would click it happily, it just doesn't exist.

Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by natrius »

coderrr wrote: post #10

Or you could sign up at https://www.privateinternetaccess.com for our VPN with two UK gateways for 6.95 for one month. Cheaper and much easier to setup. And from what I remember flash does not follow the system SOCKS proxy settings: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/how-to-force-flash-o...

Unblock Us is easier and it's free for a week.

http://unblock-us.com/

Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States

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Post by jevinskie »

coderrr wrote: post #10

Or you could sign up at https://www.privateinternetaccess.com for our VPN with two UK gateways for 6.95 for one month. Cheaper and much easier to setup. And from what I remember flash does not follow the system SOCKS proxy settings: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/how-to-force-flash-o...

For the price of a fast food lunch I decided to try it out. I appreciate the many supported protocols. The L2TP w/ IPSec VPN works just fine in OS X. The streaming quality was quite good and the online offerings from the BBC puts NBC's broadcasts to shame! I couldn't find a commercial either... is that really the case and I'm just a shellshocked American who hasn't seen the BBC in the UK before?
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