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Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online

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On 2014-02-07, Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From 

> This is an interesting article for a few reasons.  My first thought is
> that the mainstream media doesn't even consider piracy of TV shows -
> it is possible (see
> https://kickass.to/search/olympics%20category%3Ausearch%20category%3Atv/?field=time_add&sorder=desc
> ) to watch Olympic events, without directing any revenue to NBC, and
> these events can be viewed within sometimes minutes of their
> conclusion.  Another thing to consider is that, the events that the
> 99% really care about will be on broadcast TV.  If somebody is really
> a big fan of one of the sports that NBC is only barely covering, they
> will figure out a way to watch it online somehow despite NBC.
>
> Personally I find the NBC coverage to be just awful, and I only watch
> the Olympics for laughs.  The last time I think I was excited about it
> was LA 84.
>
> This story was inspired by Slashdot, may it rest in peace.
>

This is indeed interesting.  I'm a cord cutter, and pissed off they're
trying to restrict this to TV viewers only.  Seems like one dude with a
webcam set up in front of his plasma TV could circumvent it though, so
as usual, big media is not thinking deeply enough about this.  If they
were smart (*cough*) they'd publish their own torrents and charge
advertisers for a 5 second spot at the beginning of the torrent, or
stream it under a similar process.

They are advertising their continued brain-dead approach to new media,
and I look forward to it biting them in the ass.

RIP Slashdot / Fuck Beta.

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The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 14:55 -0800
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 20:08 +0000
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 16:28 -0500
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it¹s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 15:18 +0000
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-08 23:24 +0200
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 14:50 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-09 02:13 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 18:38 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 09:34 -0500
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-10 11:42 -0700
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-10 21:37 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-10 13:25 -0700
        olympics - coat hanger hack deepmagicbeginshere@gmail.com - 2014-02-10 17:25 -0800
          Re: olympics - coat hanger hack Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-11 09:59 -0700
            Re: olympics - coat hanger hack RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-11 17:50 +0000
              Re: olympics - coat hanger hack 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-11 12:57 -0500
            Re: olympics - coat hanger hack Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-12 22:51 -0800
            Re: olympics - coat hanger hack Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 00:28 -0500

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