Comments on: Pirating the 2010 Winter Olympics

By: NBC Celebrates Olympics Results, Others Beg to Differ

NBC Celebrates Olympics Results, Others Beg to Differ — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:30:13 +0000

[...] the games due to not having cable or satellite subscriptions, and 10 percent said they managed to get access to unauthorized streams via P2P clients or proxy [...]

By: William Shepherd

William Shepherd — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:26:44 +0000

The Official Web streams from NBC, cut to commercial at the same time the network broadcast does, but you get the same 30 second commercial over and over and over through the 2 to 5 minute break. I have never been as tired of anything as I am the song that goes with the half-pipe snowboarder, snowboarding through the clouds.

By: Mike Weaver

Mike Weaver — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:33:34 +0000

The OTA signal is great, but NBC's coverage is terrible. There are 2 minutes of commercials for every minute of coverage, and those of us on the west coast have to watch everything on a tape delay. It would be nice to see an event, if not live, then at least uninterrupted instead of split up over four hours.

By: Pirating the 2010 Winter Olympics | DAILY NEWS NOW, WE'RE BACK!

Pirating the 2010 Winter Olympics | DAILY NEWS NOW, WE'RE BACK! — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:55:59 +0000

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By: Eric Mortensen

Eric Mortensen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:50:00 +0000

The NBC affiliates carry quite a bit of the olympics. And in many markets there's a second OTA option, Universal Sports, as well. I sometimes feel like people are so conditioned to fight for what they want on the web that they completely forget what's floating, at no cost, right into their living rooms.

Plus, there's nothing like watching sports on the beautiful uncompressed OTA signal.

By: Janko Roettgers

Janko Roettgers — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:29:22 +0000

Good point, John, but I was actually pretty curious to try the EBU offering. It didn't really work for me, but the BBC's videos were working great, transatlantic or not.

By: John

John — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:31:58 +0000

I'm surprised the author decided to proxy into the UK to watch BBC coverage. Being physically located in the US, it would be faster to connect to a Canadian proxy and watch CTV's beautiful 720p coverage. You don't have to pull http traffic all the way from the UK that way.

By: Pirate Olympics: 5 Alternative Ways to Watch the Olympics Online

Pirate Olympics: 5 Alternative Ways to Watch the Olympics Online — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:27:31 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:27:00 +0000

You know I actually have one of the partnered cable broadcasters and therefore am theoretically eligible to watch their streaming service. I tried to do it legitimately at first but after missing 10 minutes of the hockey game I wanted to see trying to jump through their hoops, sign in through Comcast's mySignIn service (or whatever its called), looking for my account number to do so, I said forget it and found a nice, quick, and simple p2p stream.

Piracy started because it was cheaper to pirate than buy. However, more and more now, piracy happens not because people are against spending money, but because the profit-grabbing and anti-piracy measures put in 'legit' media foul up the experience so muhc.

By: honkerdown

honkerdown — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:45:35 +0000

I just tried to watch some live or full-length event streams via the official and legal means. I should be able to do so since I have Dish Network as my provider. Guess what? I can't do it anyway because I do not have a premium level package that contains both CNBC and MSNBC, (I do have CNBC, not MSNBC), though Dish / NBC are very willing to let me up my package right then & there.