NBC will not play video for linux!! Time for a lettering?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 August 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 10 August 2008, Knapp wrote:
>>>http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0810_hd_swb_hl_l1626r1
>>
>> I agree, but I think the chinese are controlling that by requiring
>> Silverlight to be used as the transport, which has all sorts of drm
>> restrictions they can control.
>
>I don't think it's got anything to do with the Chinese.
>
>> I switched FF's id to spoof as IE7, and got a download this
>> plugin requester, the plugin being silverlight.
>
>The CBC site gives me a plugin requester, but nothing about Silverlight.

It did here, once I'd used the user agent switcher to tell the server I was 
IE7 on Vista.

>--
>derek



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