-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
Like a common person, I also wanted to see the closing ceremony of olympics. But there is no TV in my room. Plan B, Internet. Started with google. 1. search 'olympics 2008' 2. google gave http://en.beijing2008.cn/. 3. look for any video link. In the right, I saw one option, 'select your country/region' 4. I selected india. 5. Hanngggg!!! I saw the message "This Channel is not available in your country". But the page is present when I checked after Olympics started. And I watched some good videos(especially lezak giving helping legs(4x100) to phelps to achive his 8 gold, Jamaica's Fastest Horse Usain Bolt's dance). But what happend at the final day? Anyway, Firefox is here, and installed 'switch proxy'. I used this link 'http://www.samair.ru/proxy/type-01.htm' to setup proxies. First I tried with China, I'm able to surf their pages, but no use, mms:// not correctly worked with mplayer, second Australia, But in the list it gave only one transparent proxy which is refusing connection. then I ended in South America(Brazil, Argentena, Columbia). Their terra network showed that fireworks and jacky chan's beautiful song and a 6min news clip about the closing ceremony. All we need is to watch those 2 or 3 min clips. But why so many restrictions? copyrights, nbc/microsoft/silverlight, EuroVision's regional restrictions, Is Internet really a one global network? Regards, Mohan R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIsgq5danwvfGWgHMRAvMHAJ9Il130i/DrWqHnKv/8O1J5XVcQmgCeL+1s 5hKGrSO+Z/weXhkarzeZxq0= =pEgP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
