NBC Plots Crackdown On Olympic Pirates
Written by Ernesto on February 08, 2010In 2008 Olympic torrents were hugely popular. The opening ceremony was downloaded more than 2 million times in the first week, outraging the International Olympic Committee. With Vancouver 2010 starting later this week, several broadcasters have declared war on Olympic pirates.
The 2008 Summer Olympics were a huge hit online, both through legal and illegal channels. NBC streamed a record breaking 2,200 hours of live video to the delight of millions of people, but strangely enough this year the network will limit its live coverage to hockey and curling.
An NBC representative explained that the network will only cover the highlights because people “are not dying to watch lots of long-form content on a 13-inch screen.” However, at the same time NBC contradicts itself by announcing that it will do all it can to prevent people from accessing unauthorized live feeds or downloads of Olympic broadcasts.
While NBC doesn’t believe there is much demand for live coverage, it will do all it can to prevent the ‘few’ people who do from downloading or streaming the events online. “Our aim is to make access to pirated material inconvenient, low quality and hard to find,” said Rick Cotton, NBC’s Executive Vice President commenting on their Olympic mission.
Once again one of the major entertainment industry outfits has got it entirely wrong. If NBC really wants to prevent piracy they have to offer at least some sort of alternative. Cutting 2,200 hours of live web coverage back to just a few hundred is certainly not going to help in stopping piracy.
NBC reportedly has teamed up with Ustream and Justin.tv, two popular live streaming sites, to use filtering schemes in order to prevent illegal broadcasts. However, it is inevitable that they won’t be able to stop them all since there are dozens of live streaming sites. Preventing torrents from being uploaded will turn out to be even more problematic for the network.
During the Beijing Olympics two years ago, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked for “assistance” from the Swedish government with preventing video clips from the Olympics in Beijing being shared via The Pirate Bay. This didn’t help much and during the weeks that followed millions of people continued to download broadcasts of Olympic events.
We assume that in the coming weeks most events will again appear online, despite NBC’s efforts to prevent the Olympics from being pirated.
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102 Responses
Very bad from NBC.
What do they expect? I have to move to vancouver to watch the olympics?
What a bunch of douche bags. I’ll make sure to download every torrents on the olympics and then distribute it to everyone I know even tho I won’t even watch anything.
I actually think it’s a pretty smart move. I don’t think they said that they’re planning on cracking down on pirates, just as they said, making it inconvenient to download stuff because it will look like crap! It will probably be up on Hulu anyway, which in itself will keep me from downloading it. :x
Winter “olympics”… who gives a damn. There are no real sports there anyway just a bunch of people sliding around on ice.
stupid nbc control freaks if we can watch on tv then why cant we choose to watch it the way we want to? huh huh huh huh huh huh?!?
NBC total retards? No surprise here.
Get a clue dumb asses.. its like its your first day in the ‘media’ department.. seriously.. do ALL of you have your head this far up your asses?
Epic Morons.
phail….. at least they wised up and didn’t cancel Chuck :)
J.
What an ignorant comment Ryan.
For many people the winter olympics are actually the “main” olympics so to speak. You have to understand that people and cultures are different. For instance, here in Norway, the winter olympics is by far the most watched and anticipated, and the same goes for many other european countries.
on-topic: I totally agree with you Uitak, I would normally get all the winter olympics I could ever want from TV, but this time I will go out of my way to help distribute it on the mighty internet. The olympics are a part of our culture and to even think of trying to restrict it for those who don’t feel like lining the fat cat’s pockets, makes me so angry and even more determined to never let these corporate assholes EVER win this war.
I will share bits and bytes til the day I die, and the tyrants can’t do a damn thing about it.
Winter Olympics suck NBC, keep the broadcasting rights to yourself, where I am located we don’t care much about winter sports as we are a tropical paradise!!
*LOL* If it’s shown in High Def on TV, then it WILL be available for download online… in high def, not poor quality. If they want to limit availability, they had better be prepared to NOT show it on TV. That’s the only way to make it ‘hard to find.’ Anything short of that and it will be easily and readily available as people simply rip it from their TV’s to hard drives…
“Our aim is to make access to pirated material inconvenient, low quality and hard to find”
Good luck with that!
Nearly all the streaming sites offer decent quality, quality via BT sites are/is fantastic, plus its convenient to download via BT and do I have to really mention how many popular BT sites there are even if you take out TPB from the equation?
While you are at it, catch me a dozen pixies…
Lame. I watched so much of their streaming content.
I guess the idiotic executive who made the comment about watching long form content on a 13″ screen has never heard of a Home Theatre PC. Wake the hell up, mate.
First I want too apologize for my horrible english.
The Norwegian TV-channel NRK will have live web-tv in HD(720p) from everything that happens in the Olympic Games
2 blog posts about the Olympic Games
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=no&tl=en&u=http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/17/en-totalopplevelse-fra-ol-2010-paa-nrk-no/&prev=_t
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=no&tl=en&u=http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/17/en-totalopplevelse-fra-ol-2010-paa-nrk-no/&prev=_t
And a link to the service
Norwgian: http://www.nrkol.no/
English/google translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrkol.no%2F
Don’t pirate the Olympics.
Don’t watch the Olympics.
Don’t even talk about the Olympics.
Don’t but the products of companies that sponsor the Olympics.
Don’t participate in that giant corporate orgy in any way.
Turn your back on them.
What he meant to say was:
“are not dying to watch lots of long-form curling on a 13-inch screen.”
Looks like all the rips are going to come from CTVglobemedia operated channels because NBC won’t have as much live coverage.
I fucking love curling, adam.
Pathetic. The IOC is like the biggest gathering of corrupted men on this Earth. You want the game in your country? Write a big check and you’re in. I paid for all this shit (stadium, dorms, food, security) and now they want to sue my ass for downloading the Olympic? Shit they own me!
Who the hell has a 13″ screen anymore? Netbooks, sure, cheap-ass laptops, OK, but lets face it, monitors now are 19″ and up. Add to that the number of us who connect our computers to our large format LCDs or plasmas and the number of people watching on 13″ screens reaches near zero. I canceled my cable and satellite and now I exclusively download via BT and watch what I want, when I want, on my 42″ plasma. Who needs NBC anyway? Remember people, this is coming from the network that is responsible for the late night talk show fiasco.
Long live Bit Torrent!
Honestly I think the BBC has the best coverage, they have 5 or 6 events at the same time, one having its own channel. I know where I’ll be watching ;)
If the US only focus on Hockey and Curling, then they’re gonna have to show Canada winning what they air on tv lol idiots
Oh and of course, BBC is online too
lmao @ 13″ screens…obviously NBC [No Body Cares] and its owners etc think it’s still the latter half of the 20th century and thus this is why their logic is flawed…i myself stream and watch stuff on a 42″ plasma with 5.1 via a laptop with HDMI so let them keep their shitty quality broadcasts and let us get it from a station that is dedicated to showing the product…i’m sure you all know a few…
ps : If Carlsberg broadcast the olympics….lol
Fastest way to encourage piracy is to make content hard to get.
Epic fail.
And Olympics are all about uniting ppl… Ah the hypocrisy…
Personally this is nothing more than corporate propaganda. And over something silly as something that is going to be broadcast live over TV. What is the difference whether I download an event or video tape it? Not a hell of a lot!
what is the difference of watching a stream of NBC live TV from a ‘pirate stream’ and watching NBC in the US? You’ll still see all the commercials, so it sounds like they are shooting themselves in the foot?
people “are not dying to watch lots of long-form content on a 13-inch screen.”
Right.. because everyone who watched the Olympics online were doing it on crappy netbook sized screens…
These days most people have laptops with 15-17″ screens and desktops with 17-22″ screens… not to mention that most modern computers hook up to big screen TV’s with no hassle.
Meh…
It is a well known fact that NBC is already over $200M in the hole for the Olympics and this will surely make it more – Hockey and Curling? Yum.
Pretty interesting, I would have thought they would have wanted EVERYONE to watch the olympics.
Sad that noone will get off their arse and make things like hulu available in New Zealand, only option is to watch shows on TV up to a year after they are shown in america, or download the latest episodes off bittorrent.
NBC could really use a Jack Donaghy at the helms… What a bunch of buffoons!
“NBC reportedly has teamed up with Ustream and Justin.tv, two popular live streaming sites, to use filtering schemes in order to prevent illegal broadcasts.”
lol Nice strategy! Not.
Don’t worry NBC! I live in Vancouver and I will upload the opening ceremonies to The Pirate Bay and ISOHunt for you :)
While NBC doesn’t believe there is much demand for live coverage,
What a frigging interesting statement. Why would you not want to watch it live.
I’m also planning on cracking down on pirates… I don’t want somebody wiping my ass without a license to do so!
Dont they realise their a millions+ of people who have no problem with connecting a pc to the lounge room tv/monitor, and now with 1080p we have really huge monitors! I would like to watch high definition streaming up to about 5mbit datarate where my internet connection starts maxing out. Too bad NBC, if you made it easy to stream legally I’d have watched a short 30 second add here or there, and you could have charged a fortune for the global advertising!
Is it just me or has the olympics lost its luster over the years? I would bet more people are interested in the newest James Cameron film than the olympics.
How much do these f#cktards pay the athletes? They use them to make money then complain if we download and watch coverage?
I really don’t know what the F#ck they are talking about in this article all the shows I download are ripped from tv or cable not some crappy, jerky small screened streamed piece of shit.
So all torrented coverage will be the standard hidef stuff.
Don’t worry all. I live in North Vancouver and I have my Over-the-air HD antenna pointed at the broadcast towers on top of Mt. Seymour for full 1080i HD CTV Olympic coverage – broadcast flag free!
I’ll capture it on my Windows Media Center and quickly encode it to H264 video and 5.1 AAC audio and sharing on TPB, isoHunt and Demonoid (MKV format).
NBC can suck me where I poop! xD
that’s all find and good until the CBC decides to release it themselves DRM free in HD like they have done previously with other shows ( http://torrentfreak.com/cbc-bittorrent-tv-080319/ )
@39 Feb 09, 2010 at 06:41 by Cyko_01
CTV got the rights to the games this time. CBC lost out. In addition, we don’t have restrictive broadcast flags here in Canada either.
Even still there are ways around broadcast flags no matter what. ;)
Haha look at that NBC saying I can’t watch this even IF I was interested(which I’m not) Who are they to tell me what I can and can’t watch… they need to get real.
NBC = No one Bloody Cares!
I love it how it is not even snowing in Vancouver! So much for your winter olympics. How about try skating on asphalt.
NBC’s going to show hockey? Why? The US isn’t even going to make the medal round ~_~
Why not download the broadcasts from a torrent tracker, when they are on every TV-canal?! WTF?!
There are winter Olympics ?
Really ?
Yawn, how boring …
Seems more like a desperate publicity stunt to me.
No people, let’s not knock our sportsmen. Sure, it might be boring to those of us who have no kind of affinity with sports, but there are those out there who love it.
What NBC is essentially saying is that they cannot be bothered to work out all the rights-issues properly prior to broadcast. It appears to be a money-saving exercise.
Still, it ain’t going to stop the files from being shared.
In other news, workers scramble to patch a broken dam with bubble gum.
is it me or are the media corporations lately getting a bit lazy? As in, they say “Piracy is a huge problem, therefore I’m not gonna make my product”. First, there was a scandinavian record label that refuses to sign artists until piracy is gone, next a band refuses to release their next cd legally, and now this?
FYI, sometimes we pirate because we have no choice! Sometimes the specific media is simply not available through authorized channels! About a year ago, I was looking for a cartoon I had watched as a kid, “Shadow Raiders”. I managed to get the first twelve episodes on DVD, but the rest aren’t available, and I looked. However, they are available on the piratebay. See there guys? You lost out on a sale, by restricting your media.
Who watches that crap anyway?
what a bunch of bullshit!
i live in sweden and would love to watch the olympics but not at 3:00 am thank you very much.
man, u’d think they would do something for people at the opposite end of the earth so that its not as inconvenient.
all these losers care about is $$$$ so i say screw.
bring on TPB and ISOHUNT ;)
Control freaks Psychopathic control freak’s every single one of them corporate greed mongers.
Main reason No Internet/DL wanted from the Conglomerates???
We The people CUT OUT THERE COMMERCIALS/PROGRAMMING.
Evil Profit Pirates they be YARR!!!
Tho what do you expect from the ones with all the Gold,For they Rule,Thanks to you’re full on acceptance of their Rule through timely worship/enslavement from you’re Just Over Brokes.
Olympic spirit my ass
dont be fooled, everything is about money :(
Call me crazy but I think a single guy that hardcore records the Olympics and wants everyone to see them will upload top notch broadcasts from DVR recordings. It only takes one guy (or girl?). Also, isn’t it free to watch the Olympics online?
Smallville season 9, episode 10
Aired January 29, 2010
Something Zod said that made a lot of sense to me.
http://www.tv.com/smallville/disciple/episode/1309005/trivia.html?tag=cast_summary;trivia#quotes
This is under Quotes section on that site.
Zod: The apple is such a plain yet fascinating fruit.
Clark: What are you doing here?
—>Zod: You know, it was the apple that launched the Trojan War, one of the great epic battles of all time. And, in many religions here, it’s the apple’s fall from the Tree of Knowledge that represents the fall of Man. Now, I found that story quite interesting because it so aptly illustrates how humans hoard knowledge. Whereas our own Kryptonian religion… now, that teaches knowledge should be shared… by all.<—
Clark: I'm sure you didn't come here for a Sunday school lesson. What do you want?
“War on piracy” … hmm, where did I her about that before?
[/sarcasm]
i can understand fighting with live streaming, as this may influence their income from advertising, but what is wrong in downloading the ceremony, or some competition few days after broadcast? people do have busy lives, an shoul watch stuff when THEY have time for it
I think what they’re trying to say is: We’re not going to bother putting it online because everyone else will do it anyway, and probably do a lot better job at it, too. We feel we’re unable to compete because our business agenda requires careful, intricate degrees of control to allow for our commercial ambitions to be realised. We’re just going to sit here and piss and moan instead because we can’t have the world exactly as we want it.
Everyone here knows full well anything of interest will be ripped in high quality and put online for everyone to grab freely, and there won’t be a damn thing they can do about it. And that’s the way it should be.
” And that’s the way it should be.”
Okay. So the Olympics should be in high quality and freely available online. In this case NBC paid a huge fee for the commercial rights to broadcast the games, and it’s that huge fee that is actually paying to STAGE the games in the first place.
So if you remove the financial return on investment and the investment doesn’t get made the next time–or, perhaps, the rights sell for a much lower price because that price can no longer be recouped because you say ” that’s the way it should be.”……then how would you fund and produce future Olympics instead?
As we have seen with the Olympics in China, the IOC has sold out on the high principles that The Games were suppose to represent to corporate greed and power…another toy for them to play with. Why else would China get the Olympics? Not because, as the IOC claims, to promote by example to foster a better sense of human rights in the Chinese government. Knowing full damn well that they would thumb their nose at it. This was more about the corporate powers-that-be thanking the Chinese government for having a cheap place to make their stuff. A place where environment and human rights are not a concern. So it doesn’t surprise me that you have media crying about file sharing of Olympic events.
:::::::: :::::::: like the 2008 olympics :::::::: :::::: ::::
NBC… LoL….. Everyone will download the BBC coverage. NO adds , NO interuptions
I wasn’t going to watch the Olympics (who the fuck gives a shit about curling honestly?) but i think i’ll download all of it (and yet never watch any of it). Just to piss off those money hungry corporate douche bags.
BBC COVERAGE IS THE BEST
NBC… LoL….. Everyone will download the BBC coverage. NO adds , NO
ahhh nothing like the spirit of competition of ancient Greece the cradle of democracy. AND to think all those math guys they had and inventions they created and the democracy they had NO COPYRIGHT
how can it happen a society with no copyright invented quite nicely
yet here we have a bunch a greedy suits again telling people that its alllll about money again
SO TO YOU I SAY suffer were pirating you to death
you abuse copyrights we grant you from society and its so bad in the USA that as the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that reducing terms will benefit there country your going to be stuck right in the butts like you should be
cant wait to see the IOC president get a pie in the face
Make the service, deliver it the best way you can, use your commercial model.. dont worry about the rest.
There is no reason to worry about 3rd party ‘pirated’ streams when everybody can just go to the ‘official’ stream and watch it for free (People dont care about moderate advertising, look at HULU).
This is all a big excuse to not offer good service anymore, and to encourage people to use an absolute god awful horrible service called DIGITAL CABLE.
Watching streams and individual shows makes advertising tough because people no longer tune into stations and accept whatever is appearing on there screen, paying whatever is needed and buying into whatever they see and being raped every way possible.
WHO THE F*CK PAYS TO WATCH ADVERTISING?
Digital Cable should be 100% free, based off the fact that you watch more ads then actual TV. Perhaps a ‘install fee’ is reasonable but monthly fees is out of the question.
And thats what the internet does, it gives you f*cking everything you want and says F*CK YOU to the assholes who make an awful product and expect you to like it.
The internet WILL be the only gateway to communication.
FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE MONEY AND OFFER A SUPERIOR SERVICE. THIS IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONSUMER. STOP. F*CKING. WHINING. IF YOU CANT DO IT F*CK OFF. YOU ARE ALL LAZY F*CKS YOU CANNOT ADAPT TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.
The sheer thought of punishing someone for pushing the envelope is unimaginable, it is the most pathetic display of corporate greed and control. THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT! NOT OIL! There is more job opportunities than EVER BEFORE BECAUSE OF ‘PIRACY’. But the rich ‘few’ stomp out all windows and claim they are being wronged.
The Customer is ALWAYS right.
DO.
NOT.
STOP.
DOWNLOADING.
No one has offered a suggestion of how the Olympics should be funded if and when piracy dismantles the corporate sponsorship model.
Would you willingly pay an Olympic tax on top of your cable charges to receive the games with no corporate involvement? All of sports, amateur and professional is corporate supported. Surely you all must know that. The areas, the fields, the teams themselves. Do you REALLY want to offload those yearly costs directly on to the consumer now?
if you say yes, I think you are crazy. I don’t want to pay more taxes.
But the money that funds the staging of all these sporting events has to come from somewhere, right? If not NBC for the Olympics, then where?
Interview for a US media company.
Interviewer: Have you had a lobotomy in the last 2 years
Interviewee: Yes sir, only last week.
Interviewer: would you be willing to say whatever I tell you (whether right or wrong)
Interviewee: Of course
Interviewer: great: You now appointed CEO of our company. Also please ignore these ‘Pirates’ they are only trying to take money out out of our and Lawyers pockets. They live in a fantasy world.
Long live money
Funny how NBC decides to NOT stream the Olympics and at the same time waste money trying to prevent it from being on the ‘Net.
With all the DRM crap and protection and prevention and broadcast flags, it’s enough for a person to get a HD camera for 1000$ and a 50$ tripod and aim the camera at a 26-30″ LCD screen and you have better quality than their Ustream or Hulu streams.
Or just use a Blackmagic hdmi card or a tv tuner to get recordings over the air.
How about they stop being a$$holes, and offer it free streaming off their website.
You get more traffic, and don’t have to worry about people doing pirate streams.
Seriously though, who the hell even cares about the olympics any more?
Craaaaaaaaaaaazy fool
We are the Humungous!
When there is no precious fuel, Pirates will be stranded
Watching TV in the Internets is no problem in Switzerland, completely legal.
Go to http://www.wilmaa.com/ . Use a Proxy/VPN in Switzerland like SwissVPN and register with Wilmaa. Now you can access it’s program even without a VPN. Just log in with the account you registered.
But it hasn’t too many english speaking TV stations.
@Reasoned Mind (an oxymoron considering the source)
An Olympic tax?…you moron, of course events like this always is funded by the taxpayer. Probably even more so than any contribution from a corporation. So please show some intelligence before saying something so inane?
Fuck NBC !!
Thye do not own the Olympics and to have the audacity to enforce a copyright infringement policy on something that attempts to bring the world together is absurd.
NBC plans to limit the amount of coverage, yet the Canadian boradcaster, CTV, is planning on having both live and recorded streams of the entire olympic games availible right from day one. I’m not sure what the actual broadcast schedule is, but the online offerings seem abundant.
Back when broadcasting had been just invented, media pioneers were dying to offer the public live coverage of the sport events – for free of course. Olympics were one of the first broadcasts to achieve widespread popularity and made us realize the new possibilities by tele-vision. Now, 60 years later, the same companies are trying to find ways to make access low-fi and hard.
@ raisin brain
unplug yourself please, stupid robot. i cant even be mad at your nonsense, as you dont mean to be retarded, you re just programmed that way. twat.
nearly everyone posting here has something legitimate to say here, except you. you have no idea of what you speak, and seem only concerned with preserving ‘the old ways’ (read: broke a$$ system of stealing money with high priced monopolies and outrageous fees and prices whilst bombarding consumers, whom are supposed to be served by these providers of goods and services, with crappy products and advertisements while not giving them what they truly want and deserve: good products with reasonable prices).
raisin brain is a moron, and proves it every time her hands touch a keyboard…
trolls should be banned or fired. (from a canon ^_^)
I’m going to download it. I can’t stay up all night and day to catch the events I want to see. You know what else? I pay for HDTV cable and NBC.
Congratulations NBC for sealing an expensive deal to be the official broadcaster of the 2010 Olympics. Not sure it makes sense that they don’t want anyone to see it.
Stupid suits; I hope this blows up in your face and ends your careers.
Actually, cancel that. Forget NBC. I’ll watch it on BBC.
The Olympic Games ® © ™
As fr as I can remember i thought what was on tv was free game oh maybe im just thinking of vhs days but greedy basterds
Here is another example of NBC making foolish business decisions. 2 yrs ago, for the Beijing Summer Olympics, NBC decided not to air the opening ceremonies live BUT INSTEAD 12 HRS LATER!!! Due to this, the opening ceremony was available via bit-torrent before NBC actually aired it. Now they are promising to show less coverage for this year’s Winter Olympics; can’t they see that this is only going to prompt more bit-torrent use. If I was one of the NBC olympic sponsors (advertisers), I would be pissed about my low return on investment…i.e. less coverage= less veiwers= less profits from my advertising.
Sorry that this is a little off topic but why does the picture on this article looks like Southpark’s Christmas Woodland Critters? LOL!
These networks are stupid!
The technology already has been released and the “pirates” are just lazy enough to make them a fortune
Release the “official” Hi Def version of the events in FULL hd on a bittorrent network (including commercials).
What will happen?
Will some one REALLY want to spend time and money tryinging to re-code a HD signal or is it easier to download the one that the networks provide in HD event if you have to watch a few commercials.
Its a NO brainer!
It’s ok everyone.. There will be craploads of streams up from Canada..
NBC may be the official US broadcaster.. Not here in Canada though w000t.. Just watch for Canadian streams \ uploaders..
That’s funny Soundwave,
“Stupid suits; I hope this blows up in your face and ends your careers.”
The suits are floating above this entire thing making meetings and pronouncement while taking huge salaries and thumbing their noses at you while they earn more in a month than you do in an entire year while you sit here posting rubbish unpaid.
And “they”re the ones” who are stupid.
lol
Pirates crack me up.
As a Linux user it appears that I cannot watch any online streaming Olympic coverage through NBC or CTV without installing MicroCrap’s DRM-laden, home phoning SilverLight plugin which I simply will not do – I will not support any software that is not open source anymore. Period. If it’s open – then I know it’s not spying on me or phoning home with my information.
Having said that – what options do I have to view the Olympics on my computer? None – except the one that others have deemed illegal.
Go figure.
To the rest of the world not named USA:
It seems like there is an OFFICIAL LIVE streaming of ALL EVENTS available, FOR FREE:
http://watchvancouverolympics.com/
Now, this site has all the official logos and stuff, so I hope it really works because there are hardly any broadcasts of the WINTER olympics in Asia.
@ 90
The small print on the disclaimer page reads,
“The Olympics Logo and all 2010 Vancouver graphics are trademarks of IOC™ This site is not affiliated with the IOC™ or the VANOC™ We index videos from a variety of sources, if you find your content on here you can contact us to have it removed.”
this goes against all the ethics and values of olympics going back thousands of years sport should be free for everyone. you cant just put a dollar bill on everything .but then what do they know about culture
I hate NBC due will not be watching any of their crap until Leno is off the Network. I hope they lose hundreds of millions on the stupid Olympics which is in the worst country of all. Canada has been douchebags since the American team got their…like Canadians are something special. They noobtube and camp on COD4 like a bunch of half-french bitches.
Hi, my TV reception is really bad and I am a big fan of Ahnton Ohno….where can I watch the Olympics online? live pleaseeeeeee
can u guys email me
asiangal88@gmail.com
I’ve heard there is already a leaked version of the Olympic Games one various torrent sites :P
Full coverage of the Olympic Games should be publicly available globally.
It’s a global event, and the whole world is interested. Free full coverage is the least they can do. (I’m paying ridiculous amounts of tax money for these games for a reason, aren’t I?).
And guess what, BT just happens to be a decent way to spread content…
@93
I found that quite entertaining. =)
I hate youtube and I like shotguns. I have no French blood in me either. Vancouver, B.C. (where the games are being held) is wonderful and beautiful city.
I had this problem for the Beijing Olympics. The best way to watch the Olympics online is definitely http://www.WorldWideTVonPC.com . You won’t miss a single event and it is all in HD. Good Luck!
“Our aim is to make access to pirated material inconvenient, low quality and hard to find,”
http://www.google.com/search?q=The.2010.Vancouver.Winter.Olympics.Opening.Ceremony.HDTV.XviD-2HD
Results 1 – 10 of about 1,530
Fail
Our taxes pay for all this the technology exists to give the slaves this information as well even the ones who do not own a television but have the internet and if it is such an important culyural event you think like documentaries or beethoven recordings we would want to share it with people but no our money blinds win out again on what motivates people so lets maginalize more poor people the very ones who can not write off all their taxes in corporate loopholes the ones who cant afford to pay acountants and lawyers to buy thier way through money world I dont want to pay taxes anymore or be part of the olympics because i wasnt invited
nobody said they were stupid they certainly know who has money and where to find them and how to get a chunk of thier own. thier hearts are certainly in the right place for sure,it’s funny the skills that are desired and rewarded in a society where the people in control fear to loose control more and more
Cannot. Watch. Olympics. Hate, Hate, Hate, Exclusive Broadcast-rights…with no Broadcast. If they just streamed the Cable feed….wouldn’t we watch the same comercials?
Another stupid move from NBC, why not streaming the event on the Internet.If they dont want it to broadcast on their Channel.
Baba Booey
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