How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
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How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
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#3This doesn't actually work, not using latest Flash on Mountain Lion anyway. This, however, does work:
Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
#4Kinda 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 start looking into overseas subscriptions at this point. Nevermind the IOC - why can't they offer anything on Pay-Per-View? Both are great alternative sources of income they're passing up, instead essentially encouraging piracy and sending money to third parties instead!
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#5This 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.
Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
#6Kinda 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…
Article doesn't mention anything about free.
Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
#7Kinda 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…
This is a complicated affair. It's the rights holders to the content that the BBC broadcasts who are probably the biggest hurdle in expanding the BBC Worldwide's reach. Global iPlayer is a start, but it will take time.
Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
#8This 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.
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Re: How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
#9This 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.
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#10Or 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...