<story><title>NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>My problem isn&apos;t just the delay, it&apos;s the fact that they were pretending the rest of the world does not exist.&lt;p&gt;The NBC &quot;newscasters&quot; were &lt;i&gt;lying&lt;/i&gt; on air, saying things like &quot;the big question now is who will be lighting the olympic torch,&quot; &quot;the opening ceremony &lt;i&gt;will begin&lt;/i&gt; in 2 hours&quot; (when it was already over!), &quot;in three hours time, the debate will be on as to whether the London or Beijing ceremony was nicer, we have the world has no idea what surprises are in store,&quot; and so on and so forth. They&apos;re deliberately misleading their viewers, and it&apos;s disgusting.</text></comment>
<story><title>NBCOlympics’ Opening Ceremony Tape Delay: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>It is stupider than that.&lt;p&gt;Anyone who wants can get access to their streaming web.  Just give them who your cable provider is, and your user name and password to that account so that they can verify that it is you.&lt;p&gt;OK.  What about people like me?  I wouldn&apos;t mind seeing some of the Olympics.  I would like to show it to my son.  But I never watch TV, and I do not have a subscription to any TV cable service.  Can&apos;t I, I don&apos;t know, PAY THEM to get access to this 2 week event?  Or maybe they can MAKE ME SIT THROUGH ADS to get it?&lt;p&gt;Apparently not.  There is no such option.  I&apos;ll just have to track down a friend who trusts me and has a cable account to login on my computer so that I can watch.  Or else find an illegal stream.  Or else just not watch.</text></comment>