RE: fake out MLB

[William Knowles <wk () c4i org>]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:

Bear with me as I read this from the digest mode, have you by chance 
looked into the SlingBox - http://www.slingmedia.com/

For $200 it sounds like it does everything you want it to do (and then
some), I don't have one yet, but I suspect there has to be other users
that would be willing to let you watch games that are blacked out for
you and vice versa.

William Knowles
wk () c4i org


> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 06:13:47 -0400
> From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
> Subject: RE: [funsec] fake out MLB
> To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
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> I should add that MLB's blackout rules
> (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/subscriptions/mlbtv.jsp) got considerably
> more onerous this year: "Local Live Blackout: ALL LIVE MLB.TV games will be
> blacked out in both teams' home telecast markets and in Japan."
>
> IOW, if your team has a TV contract you can't watch their games if you live
> within the local market, which is pretty broadly defined, something like
> 40-50 miles radius. This used to apply only to home games. Until I get a
> Senate committee to look into this in depth I need a solution for Real
> Americans to watch their baseball on their computers! It's generally not a
> problem for me since I live out of my own team's market, but I've received a
> couple of complaints.
>
> Also I recommend my column from 2 years ago on this:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1617714,00.asp. It has one of my
> favorite opening paragraphs.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 



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