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I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Post by temptemp123 »

If you have an european ip, go to http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

It's the official site of all european broadcasters.

You have access to all the live streams (without commentary) from all the arenas and all the live streams from all european stations.

Just enter bbc, zdf, ard, etc... in the search box to get the corresponding live stream with their commentary.

It also works if you are blocked on the broadcasters website (e.g. i can't watch the zdf live stream, but can watch it here).

They have live streams for each olympics and for some special events.

Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Post by temptemp123 »

jamesharker wrote: post #146

I'm actually quite surprised to see so many posts on HN discussing ways to pirate Olympic content. The BBC is restricted to UK IP addresses for a reason. Every household in Britian pays the equivalent of around $230 per year for the right to watch live television, whether it be on your phone, laptop or TV. The BBC has a finite amount of resources to spend on hosting online content & if the whole World logs on to watc…

All european citizen can watch it on http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/london2012/index.html

Just enter bbc into the search box.

Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Post by brudgers »

sudonim wrote: post #66
brudgers wrote: post #51

"I use a service called Vyprvpn which is $14.99 a month. I get it as part of a bundle with a subscription to Giganews. That’s how I connect with a VPN to the UK. And you can too." So the author ended up paying to watch the Olympics. Illegally, instead of legally, I would add.

I guess technically I'm paying for VPN service, but I would have been anyway, so I didn't buy something new. And, I'm not certain it's illegal. Are you? Is the legislation specific about where you must reside? What if you're consuming content but you're not in the UK? If it is illegal for anyone to consume BBC content at the time of broadcast without a TV license regardless of location, what if someone outside of the…

[IANAL] My understanding of copyright is that for events such as the Olympics, copyrights are often licensed licensed a country by country basis and that the retransmission of material across national boundaries is a violation. Doing so violates the author's right to control their work because it bipasses the arrangements the author has made to control their work. Incidently, this rests on the same legal principles upon which much of FOS software community operates (the license terms are merely different).

However, I would recommend speaking with an attorney familiar with such matters.

Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Post by utoku »

Like most people here, I just don't like the fact that some people are trying to put digital walls around me.

To buy my nexus 1 phone, I had to use a machine in US. I bought some other stuff from UK that way, using my machine in UK. But then UK started blocking other sites, so I had move that machine to Germany.

Someone needs to come up with a research paper, showing the optimum number of virtual machines needed to access the whole internet (with their locations). Or better, make a business out of it.

Re: I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?

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Post by emgreen »

I'm a Brit living abroad, and guiltily use one of the (probably illegal) methods already mentioned to watch the BBC - I feel bad, but I just can't do without it! One thing to know, it's completely okay to listen to BBC radio from anywhere in the world, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio. There's a sports station for the Olympic Coverage - Radio 5, and I also heartily recommend Radio 6 for music, and Radio 4 for excellent speech radio, including news, documentaries, comedies and dramas.
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