(OT)Re: Number One Bug and the Olympics

[Knapp]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net> wrote:

> Knapp wrote:
> > A few days ago I discover that you could only watch the Olympics in
> > the USA if you where there on the continental USA and you did not run
> > Linux of any kind do to a new attack on the freedom of computers call
> > Silverlight from Microsoft.
> >
> > To help free the Olympics and our computers I have made a site to talk
> > about these problems.
> >
> > I am a normal user of Kubuntu and am new to this Ubuntu list but
> > wanted to invite as many as I could to help fix this problem with
> > Linux and the Olympics.
> >
> > Thanks for you time!
> >
> > Visit us at:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/free-olympics
> >
> > Please join the list and help or just ghost it.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > --
> > Douglas E Knapp
> >
> > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
> Somehow the Canadian and Aussie feeds are blocked in the US. NBC sucks,
> we don't watch their coverage at all. At least NBC does say they only
> work with Windows or some Mac browsers. Some CNBC feeds work. Maybe by
> 2010.
>
> Jim
>

It will only change if people fight for it. The IOC is forcing the media
companies to block your address based on the location of your provider. You
can get coverage out of country by using a proxy in the country of which you
want to view.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page
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