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Pirating the Olympic Games

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

There’s a great article over at NewTeeVee about how to pirate the Olympic Games.

Personally, I’m a big fan of the games and have been since I was a very little kid (my father always loved them, so I grew up with it…plus, it didn’t help that I loved the movie The First Olympics, check it out), but watching it has always been a bit of a problem.

I remember in 1992 when NBC finally started getting better coverage than just showing it at 8pm every night. Since then, they have increased their programming. In fact, now they’re promising huge coverage, including online. Though, for the exciting events that people are dying to watch, those will get delayed three hours.

To fix this problem, NewTeeVee has come up with a few different techniques for people to watch the Games: p2p streaming, live video sites, YouTube, torrent sites and foreign TV. Now, as to the details on how to get those working for you, go check out the article.

As for me, I remember watching some of the Euro Cup this year on TVU Player — was it good? Not really. Did it satisfy my Euro desires? Oh yes. I got to watch the games, for free even. Which is exactly what good pirating is all about!

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UN Approves Resolution Fighting Modern Piracy off Coast of Africa

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Off the coast of Africa, piracy isn’t something new or surprising. In fact, it’s become so prevalent that the UN Security Council has passed a unanimous resolution that calls for all UN members to use “all necessary means to repress acts of piracy and armed robbery.”

That’s right, we’re not talking about piracy from the 1700s here, we’re talking about piracy, running rampant in 2008. How rampant? The Piracy Reporting Centre (that’s right, they have a whole piracy reporting center!) of the International Maritime’s Bureau reported that there were 49 attacks within the first three months of 2008, which is 8 more than the 41 reported during the same period in 2007.

Would the pirates of old be proud of the work that these modern pirates are doing? Well, now that’s an interesting question now isn’t it?

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