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Nelson Minar
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It's been 24 hours since the Olympics opening ceremony. NBC started
the broadcast early and I missed the fancy drums. So I went online to
watch the part I missed. You know, go to Youtube and watch a crappy FLV version of the opening
ceremony, broken up into easily sharable, easily linkable three minute
segments.
Nope! Near as I can tell, there's no legitimate way to share a video experience of the Olympics online. Google's got Youtube locked down quite tightly, even if you fiddle your cookies. The NBC and Olympics sites seem to not have the video, although the sites are so awful I could have just not found it. I even checked Hulu, which apparently thinks Jimmy Carter's boycott in 1980 is the most relevant result for a search on "Olympics". Of course there are torrents available; 5 gigs for a 720p copy, probably blissfully free of the American announcer stupidly bleating colour commentary. But that's a lot of effort to watch three minutes of video. And it's not really sharable with your friends. So great job, Olympics copyright holders! You've made your production irrelevant to the Internet. Update: ok, I ranted a bit too soon. NBC
does have a lot of Olympics video
online, including the opening
spectacle. It requires Silverlight, and
it's awfully hard to find things on the video site, but once you start
watching something it's pretty good.
See also Metafilter discussion
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