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

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Post by sch1zo » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 10:46 AM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #33

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

you probably should mention the guys providing the service. These DNS Servers are from http://tunlr.net/ and you shouldn't use these Server permanantly because they do DNS Traffic shaping

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

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Post by wamatt » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 10:51 AM UTC

growt wrote: post #34

Or you could use Hide My Ass, they have a summer special starting at $9,99 for a week. http://hidemyass.com/vpn/r3906/ (disclaimer: affiliate link)

I'd recommend witopia over HMA.

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

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Post by wamatt » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 10:55 AM UTC

AffableSpatula wrote: post #31

alayne wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Who says it's coming at a cost? There is a very real chance the BBC have fixed sized pipes already paid for, that are not even close to being fully utilized.

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

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Post by georgespencer » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 11:20 AM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #40

georgespencer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's for the bandwidth not the content. And I'm sure they wouldn't take it, I'd just like to see the response.

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

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Post by wisty » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 11:21 AM UTC

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.

That's right. There's no reason to give a shit about the Olympics these days. And if the IOC wants to make it hard for fans to watch, why should we make any effort to support their celebration of ... what does it stand for now ... obese cable subscribers watching fit people wreck their bodies?

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

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Post by Sidnicious » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

This reminds me of the steps a friend of mine took as a cable nonsubscriber to watch Yankees games from New York City.

MLB.com lets you subscribe and watch games online but Yankee games are blocked in NYC due to the team's exclusivity agreement with their own cable channel. I'm waiting for him to write a post about his solution (it involves both a VPN and an FM radio).

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

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Post by ceol » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

bradgessler wrote: post #24

binaryorganic wrote: post #13

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

Its not. I just put a disclosure at the bottom of the post and would like to donate whatever the referrals are to an anti-censorship organization, assuming Linode can make that happen.

The bottom of the post isn't where you linked the referral. Pretty shady behavior, honestly.

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

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Post by powerslave12r » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 3:41 PM UTC

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.

> 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/

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

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Post by streptomycin » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

powerslave12r wrote: post #48

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.

> 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..

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

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Post by _delirium » Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 4:37 PM UTC

georgespencer wrote: post #44

kalleboo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's for the bandwidth not the content. And I'm sure they wouldn't take it, I'd just like to see the response.

While you wouldn't be able to get them to accept direct payment for this service (since they aren't allowed to sell it to Americans), you could choose to donate to one of the other programs they run that accepts donations, such as this one: https://secure.thebiggive.org.uk/donate/donate.php?charity_i...