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Error: Olympics not available in China

Aug 7, 2008 00:03

http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/littleredblog/post.htm?id=63005622&scid=rvhm_ms


This year marks the first time video of Olympics will be easily accessible on the internet (well, relatively easy). NBCOlympics.com has events online streaming live with a little help from Microsoft Silverlight. If you want to watch, you do need to be inside the U.S. When I try to bring up the site here in China, I get an error saying that it's restricted to U.S. viewers only. Well, there's always youtube right? Didn't they just announce a new Olympics Channel? Oops! That's not available in China either? Wow...

Well, if you've really got your mind set on streaming the Olympics on your computer, there are ways around problems like these. One solution for those of us here in China is to check out PPlive, one of China's many uber-speedy P2P services, who are supposedly licensed to show the games. Oddly enough, it's only available if you have a Chinese IP address!

Alternatively, you could go browse Qik instead. I hear they have all the hot Olympic action...

On a sidenote, Facebook is still barely kicking in China, and rarely responds with anything more than "page not found" these days. It's the highest profile censorship casualty to date, though the somewhat intermittent nature of the block is keeping it relatively low key in the media.