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YouTube to stream Olympics to 77 territories

sportsillustrated.cnn.com — The Olympic content will reach 77 territories where digital rights have not been sold, or have been acquired on a non-exclusive basis, the International Olympic Committee said Monday. The IOC did not release financial details of the deal.

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  • Cancerkitty, on 08/04/2008, -1/+23Awesome! Now I can waste more time at work watching the olympics all day.
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -3/+21Cool beans!
  • Games4Life, on 08/04/2008, -0/+13...Viagra?
  • AmyVernon, on 08/04/2008, -1/+11yay!
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -1/+11way to go Youtube.
  • UberNick, on 08/04/2008, -0/+10Don't be a negative Nancy
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -0/+10see, see this is the power of the internet, great job youtube - google.
  • ironeus, on 08/04/2008, -0/+10Definitely very cool!
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -2/+12Viva YouTube.
    Viva Google.
    Viva LasVegas.
    Viva...
  • CobaltBlue, on 08/04/2008, -0/+9Digg is getting to me too. I read it as "YouTube to stream Olympics to 77 territories. All banks failed. Second great depression started. Ron Paul elected president. Apple only company to survive."
  • lnxfi, on 08/04/2008, -0/+8I think Digg is getting ot me - I read that as "YouTube to stream Olympics to 77 terrorists"
  • soccernamlak, on 08/04/2008, -0/+8La Vida
  • tomz17, on 08/04/2008, -0/+7Yeah... great idea... let's just all go find this mythical proxy with MASSIVE amounts of upstream bandwidth hosted in some ***** country where no one has even bothered to negotiate for the broadcast rights to the OLYMPICS... I'm sure it'll work great!
  • Games4Life, on 08/04/2008, -1/+8*Video was removed due to copyright claims*
  • scy1192, on 08/04/2008, -2/+9Geo-blocking? Nothing a proxy can't get around.
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6Sweet, well done Youtube.
  • zadadka, on 08/04/2008, -0/+6How amusing.

    If your nations' Citizens can afford it, they may be charged Pay Per View.
    If your Citizens can't afford PPV, your nations will be charged for highlights of a couple of hours of daily, heavily edited, material.
    If your nations and citizens can't afford the edited material, don't worry, YouTube will cover it for you.

    Which begs the question :
    Who is being ripped off here?

    OK, the YouTube content will be comparatively low quality, but it all comes from the same cameras, with only the output feeds being doctored to "reduce the experience".

    Why, why, why, can't such an international staged event be presented for what it is?
    A rare example of humankind participating together in competitive games that transcend political (and any other) upheaval, celebrating the outcome of the many dedicated individuals who compete against each other to succeed in their chosen fields, just as the Olympiad originally intended?

    Oh, wait....I think I may have the answer :
    The Olympics....the Every-Four-Years-Christmas-like-Commercial-Exploit of participants (required by the IOC to hold "amateur" status) and viewers alike.

    So now I think, well, if the sportsmen & women who give literally years of endeavour for almost no reward got some sort of "cut" on revenues for their incredible efforts in even qualifying for the Olympics, I might consider PPV, but as it is, I just see more "fat cats" getting fatter on the exertions of others, so now I think IOC = an RIAA equivalent.....

    Rant over.

    Good luck to them all....if they are not fortunate enough to carry away a medal, may they carry away the pride of their own richly deserved personal achievements.
  • BadAsh71, on 08/04/2008, -1/+6You can watch YouTube at work?

    :)
  • BadAsh71, on 08/04/2008, -3/+8So is China one of the countries on the "blocked" list :)
  • inactive, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4Piñata!
  • graemee, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4Proxies
  • gandhii, on 08/04/2008, -0/+4yes.. i can digg too..
  • maja742, on 08/04/2008, -2/+5fire up your proxies
  • Daniel591992, on 08/04/2008, -2/+5The US is getting onto you, not digg.
  • Iggins, on 08/04/2008, -1/+4Good thing the USA is the land of the free so we can wat-- oh... never mind.
  • tenio, on 08/04/2008, -0/+3just use some proxy's and then we can watch the videos too
  • Niubai, on 08/04/2008, -2/+4Proxies FTW !!!!
  • uker, on 08/05/2008, -0/+2are you in china?
    how do you know the number,80%?
    in fact, usually most of the video are free to look.
  • chroko, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2That's what I thought too. But from glancing at the article, they are wrong to use the term "streaming" in that context.

    > The package from Beijing will include highlights, news and daily clips of the competitions

    So no, it isn't a live video stream. They're just distributing prerecorded clips, as always.
  • mister711, on 08/04/2008, -0/+2What about NBC streaming? Why would those of us in the US go to youtube through some proxy, when we have NBC streaming?
  • hellride66, on 08/04/2008, -1/+2they can change the name now to WeTube
  • Daniel591992, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Awesome commercial
  • thetron, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Internet buddie will strike again with Geo-tagging
  • t2t2, on 08/04/2008, -0/+1Hold on:
    "Internet users outside the 77 territories will blocked from seeing the clips through a technology called "geo-blocking.""
  • Fozefy, on 08/04/2008, -1/+2Now we just need a digg article that explains how to setup a proxy. ;) I'm sure I could figure it out though that may take an hour or two.
  • spidoman, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1WORDS WORDS WORDS
  • RyeBrye, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1Proxy.
  • iJump, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1... Or Death to All His Friends
  • Epik, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/photo?slu ...

    Unidentifiable? Shame on you, Getty Images. That's Natalie Coughlin's ass.
  • s4g4n, on 08/04/2008, -1/+1Did I read streaming? I thought youtube was all about "uploading" where can you stream live?
  • linuxcdrs, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0Viva La Bus!
  • bundwallah, on 08/04/2008, -1/+1YYAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN!!! What are we gonna see through the smog and poorly transcoded video?
  • salinemist, on 08/04/2008, -1/+1Will they stream to all 57 states?
  • stuffradio, on 08/04/2008, -1/+1I thought the exact same words while I was reading that, haha.
  • blinktude, on 08/04/2008, -0/+0oh snap, i misread it as terrorist at first and thought wtf
    damn the media
  • hydroplane, on 08/04/2008, -3/+2Great! Now I can boycott the internet broadcasts as well as the television.
  • 3rdincome, on 08/05/2008, -1/+0Firefox / Explorer add-on toolbar to follow all the coverage. Video, photos, news, results, team, athletes, etc and you can add you own custom links as well.
    http://2008SummerGames.OurToolbar.com
  • noPCtoday, on 08/04/2008, -4/+2ironically, China bans and throttling 80% of Youtube videos.
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