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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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Pretty easy. Took me 2 minutes to set it up (I already have VPS). But Live streaming is also available on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic .Why are you not using that? Isn't it accessible in US?

Live streaming from the IOC on YouTube is only available in 64 countries where there aren't exclusive broadcaster rights. All of those countries are in Africa or Asia, so not available in the US alas.

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

#52
post #36

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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

Yes, I would love to be able to pay the BBC some amount to watch their iPlayer broadcasts of the Olympics but I'm sure NBC would never let that happen.

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

#53

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> Where are these torrents, with high quality video posted in near real time? We should see a solution to that soon. http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/bittorrent-live/

Sopcast has been around for many years..

You're right! I forgot that it was p2p.

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

#54

Just use http://tunlr.net/ 's DNS servers - it's completely free and with no signup required, takes 20 sec to add. Primary DNS: 64.250.122.104 Secondary DNS: 199.167.30.144

This doesn't work. I get "The content does not seem to be working." when trying to load the stream.

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

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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...

I signed up, but the quality of the stream is really not that good. It fluctuates between 480 and sometimes hits up to 1500 for ten seconds. I never get the 3500kbps stream that I think should be available.

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

#56
I'm posting this in all three of the 'Olympics' threads showing up on the front page of HN:

I live in Berkeley, CA and I was able to get full access to videos, including streams and highlights, by selecting Xfinity as my service provider during my initial sign-up/activation on the NBC Olympics website.

Here at my apartment, we have no cable service and an internet provider called Zoom. So obviously, I wasn't being truthful - but instead was trying to circumvent this ridiculous corporate stranglehold during my first attempt to access Olympic footage.

I don't know if it will still work, but it worked for me on Friday and my credentials have held since - allowing my full access without login each time I access the website.

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

#57

This is spam. First step is a referral link to linode.com.

I wouldn't call it spam, but it is worth noting that this is at least the third "how to watch the Olympics" article I've seen on HN in the past day which contains a referral link to some VPS provider.

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

#58
NBC are streaming all the events live at http://www.nbcolympics.com/ , although you need to have a cable/satellite TV subscription to access the streams. The complaints about them not showing events live on TV are legitimate (not to mention their editing out the tribute to the victims of the 7/7 bombing during the opening ceremony), but there's an easier solution for most people in the US than the one in this article.

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

#59

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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.

We are all ears.
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