Online video’s Olympic own goal
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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I’m Canadian and the Winter Olympics — those are the cold ones no one cares about — are currently running in Vancouver.
Thanks to the glory that is the internet, I can watch highlights and view live streams online, without having to disturb my flatmates’ viewing habits or upgrade our television package to something that actually airs sports.
But the downside is that when something incredibly cool happens and I want to share it, it’s not so easy. For example, yesterday the US women’s hockey team — and yes, that’s ice hockey — played the Chinese team. The Americans won 12-0.
Now such a blowout might sound like boring hockey, but there was one astonishing goal. Whether you get that hockey’s the best sport ever or you just think it’s crappy football on skates (idiots), Jocelyne Lamoureux’s goal is a thing of absolute beauty.
So I would love to link to it. But the BBC’s clip can’t be viewed by North Americans — the only ones I know who would care about such things.
And while I think this is the right NBC clip, I can’t check it, because it can’t be viewed by Britons.
Odds are, given the way filming happens at these events, it’s the same clip, the very same footage. How inane is this?
(As an aside, a similar thing happened with a show a Canadian friend recommended, How I Met Your Mother. She couldn’t send me DVDs to get started on it, because they’re region one, and the UK is region two. Instead, I got low quality videos ripped onto a collection USBs, which was a rather weird thing to get in the post.)
I’m not trying to get around the system or screw the content makers over. I’m just trying to watch their stuff. If they keep making it so difficult to do legally, they can hardly be surprised when pirate sites pop up… or when we all just go back to TV. At least then I can record things to VHS and mail them around as I like, right?
Rated: 100% (2 votes)
Loading ...Comment by SLmanDR - February 16, 2010 on 2:09 pm
And on top of all that you have to install Shiverlight to view it. Sheesh!
Comment by - February 26, 2010 on 1:17 pm
When we are supposed to be a global community it is very odd isn’t it - although I can kinda understand the BBC as it is run through license fees which non-UK residents don’t pay.
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