(OT)Re: Number One Bug and the Olympics

[Jim Smith]

Knapp wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Jim Smith <jim at oz.net
> <mailto: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
I'm not quite sure how to do that. I tried and it still showed an error
message "no video" when I selecteda live stream.  A subsequent attempt
just took down Firefox.

Jim

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