Hack Your Way Into YouTube’s Olympics Channel
I don’t know if you guys have checked, but after the US team reviewed the NBC Olympics web player, I headed over to Yahoo!7 to see what was on offer locally. There’s good news for people who just can’t get enough of Mel and Kochy and the rest of the Channel 7 Olympic News Team, but bad news for anyone hoping for an immersive online video experience. Sure there’s video there, but sorting through what you want isn’t exactly what I’d describe as fun.
But now there’s a bit of hope for some diversity, with Valleywag detailing how you can hack your way into YouTube’s Olympic channel. As we discovered last week, the channel is geo-locked, but with this little hack, anyone can start watching.
Hit the link for the full instructions and fill the comments with comparisons between the YouTube effort and Yahoo!7’s attempts. Which is better?
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This doesn’t work any more. You can get to the Beijing2008 portal page, but no videos load – they all say the video is no longer available and when you try to load one from a link it says it is not available in your region.
Ok the instructions allowed me to get to the page, but none of the videos will load. It appears YouTube have geolocked all of the content individually :(
It’s such a shame too, because the YouTube layout rocks! It is far more intuitive than Yahoo7.
I have tried it and doesn’t work anymore. Comments from the page also confirms it.
This doesn’t work anymore, it gets you access to the channel but all the videos dont load. If you click one it says “This video is not available in your country”.
Doesn’t seem to work anymore. Shame. Comments on the linked website seem to be along the same line.
no longer working
Will anchor free’s hotspot shield vpn program work, much like it does for hulu? I tried but the program doesnt seem to work on vista 64.
The Yahoo7 Coverage is terrible, if you can’t make the video full screen what is the point????
i just use a proxy to access this page. have been using it since the olympics started ’cause nbcolympics sux. i just can’t get enough of these olympics – SO EXCITING. read about all my experience to get more online here: http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/not-enough/