Sun 10 Aug 2008
Olympic Gold
Posted by bill under I saw this
I don’t really care about the Olympics, but thought I’d have a look to see how well the broadcasters were doing with their online coverage. Having spotted this interesting comment on news.com I followed the link, installed the latest Silverlight, restarted my browser and…
Failed olympics coverage
So good to see the IOC understands the global importance of sport… and making money out of it.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Isn’t this screen similar to what non-UK viewers see when they try to visit your employer’s “iPlayer”?
It’s all about the licensing…
August 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Absolutely. And it sucks there too. Trying to impose arbitrary geographic boundaries like this just encourages people to make use of unofficial channels - hence the large number of BBC shows available as .torrents.