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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 AffableSpatula »

alayne wrote: post #22
ck2 wrote: post #21

I know this won't be popular but is it actually a right to watch the Olympics live? Like movies in theaters I just ignore the hype and wait six months for either redbox or netflix to get it.

It's obviously not a fundamental human right to have access to Olympic programming. However the way in which they delay programming and restrict access seems manipulative which I file under unethical.

No, not unethical, just plain idiotic. But illegally watching a free TV station at the cost of another country's tax payers is definitely unethical.

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

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Post by kristofferR »

avolcano wrote: post #4

Kinda seems more like "how to watch the Olympics for $20" (or more - I don't know quite how many games are available, and at what quality, from the BBC, but I feel like you could potentially use over 200 gigs of transfer in watching them). Many actual VPNs are somewhat cheaper, and just as simple to set up. Of course, paying money to a third-party to watch BBC feels as insane and dumb as ever. You'd think that they'd…

Just use these two DNS servers, they're free and takes no effort to get working:

Primary DNS: 64.250.122.104

Secondary DNS: 199.167.30.144

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

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Post by Someone »

ck2 wrote: post #21

I know this won't be popular but is it actually a right to watch the Olympics live? Like movies in theaters I just ignore the hype and wait six months for either redbox or netflix to get it.

In the EU, that is borderline. http://europa.eu/pol/av/index_en.htm:

"The Directive requires EU countries to coordinate national legislation with each other so that […] major events – like the Olympics or football World Cup – are available to a broad audience, not just on pay-TV channels"

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

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Post by egwor »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #29
jevinskie wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No commercials. The BBC is funded by UK taxpayers through a license fee (about £12 per month).

So it basically means that everyone doing this is breaching various licensing agreements

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

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Post by georgespencer »

mbell wrote: post #17
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.

Send them a cheque. They choose not to account for the possibility of people taking advantage of their good nature. You should give them the option of accepting payment.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

georgespencer wrote: post #37
mbell wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Send them a cheque. They choose not to account for the possibility of people taking advantage of their good nature. You should give them the option of accepting payment.

The BBC aren't allowed to serve customers outside of the UK even if they wanted to due to the licensing agreements they have with content owners. NBC is the exclusive broadcaster in the United States. Anyone offering the Olympics to US viewers is in breach of their licensing agreement.
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