Comments on: Olympics Opening Ceremony a Hit On BitTorrent

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:24:08 +0000

I’ve worked 12 hour days for the last week and a half with Wednesday being my only day off. I don’t care if it’s illegal or not, they choose not to re-air the ceremonies so I fully intend to download it.

By: Kapcha

Kapcha — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:27:42 +0000

That`s great! Ok, I will go now to TPB to downlaod it )

By: welc09kjhbbgab1

welc09kjhbbgab1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:59:32 +0000

“”Maybe they should start offering their own sponsored downloads in 2012? ”

Too bad the world ends in 2012 huh

By: hms-one

hms-one — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:53:31 +0000

I got my silverlight issues fixed and attempted to access NBC official olympic stream. They have a block that prevents me from accessing the stream unless i sign in with my cable tv provider account.
WTF is the point of an online stream if it is not an alternative to other broadcast media. Why must I have a cable tv online account to watch the olympics online? Bucause these Guy’s are a bunch of greedy f*ckholes, that’s why. They don’t get a cut of my ISP fees so f*ck me.
I’ll be trying the ctv stream next, any advice for good ‘pirate’olympic streams if that site screws me too?

By: Toxic

Toxic — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:58:36 +0000

You know not all of us have DVRs at home to tape the hours upon hours of events. They make it nearly impossible to see the events that we miss if we can’t sit at home for endless hours to watch events. What the hell else are we susposed to do? I saw the opening and everything but missed alot of other stuff. If the stupid Olympic commity would get out of the 6th century and post digital media on the internet then I would pay to see it. As it stands I’ll just have to pirate it ARG!

By: hms-one

hms-one — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:26:15 +0000

btw, I do indeed want to watch 3 hours of curling on a 13 inch screen! I wanted it, and got it, 6 years ago before HD TV’s were wide spread, and I wan’t It today. That statement alone manages to demonstrate NBC’s pathetic misunderstanding of the market’s desire for olympic broadcast content, and stands as the perfect example of why they should be supplanted as america’s ‘exlusive’ olympic broadcaster.

By: hms-one

hms-one — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:15:06 +0000

Fuck NBC, Fuck CTV, Fuck Microsoft, And FUUUUCK Silverlihgt!

I am running firefox 3.5.7 and Moonlight 2.99 plugin on a 64 bit linux system, and all the ‘official’ streams of the olympics will not work for me because of silverlight/firefox issues.

Also, I waited up late w/ my sister to see the NBC Ski Jumping re-broadcast and they ended up showing like 5 Jumps! I’m sorry, but a 105.5 ft jump is less impressive when you dont see 50 other world class athletes barely breaking 100 ft in the hour preceding it. NBC has reduced their event coverage year after year and filled the mean time with ‘human interest’ BS. Then they say they want to crack down on altenative broadcast methods. FUCK ‘EM!

By: Dante.Xaiver

Dante.Xaiver — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:49:57 +0000

I am Canadian myself and will freely admit to downloading myself a nice 8gb copy of the ceremony

SHARING IS CARING!!

By: Ruedi

Ruedi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:05:35 +0000

It would seriously have made sense for them to have used some sort of podcasting service for the Olympic events.

However, they have different exclusive broadcasters in different countries, and it’s kind of hard to escape such legalities. Maybe they can iron it out in two years.

Of course this could be handled with either geoip detection at the central web page, or simply having the person click on what nation they are from.

I just hope if they do this, they don’t stick some stupid DRM on it that makes it difficult for non Microsoft users to view without really preventing piracy (such as Microsoft Silverlight or Encrypted mp4.) Seriously, you don’t lock the store’s door to prevent shoplifters!

By: JR Salazar

JR Salazar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:01:15 +0000

These IOC crackheads are crack-headed pieces of hooeys. Torrents are here and they are here to stay. Whether they like it or NOT!