Posted by Travis on Feb 23, 2010 quarter to one pm
Well, The Colbert Report airs on CTV in Canada, who owns the broadcast rights for the Olympics in Canada, so if he wanted to release an uncensored episode...
The funny thing is, if Internet would have been borderless (I mean the IP addresses were randomized, so that one could not determine from which country each user is) from the beginning. It would have become "a right", such as Internet neutrality...
Now it is impossible to get ICANN or any other party to accept the real anonymization of users, since corporations are monetizing on the knowledge where each user is located, and thus will go to worlds end to lobby that real anonymous users will never exist.
Shortly, in this matter, we have already lost an anonymity in internet, and can't claim it back.
This might turn out even worse when IPv6 networks will be released because each country could give identifying group of IP's for each citizen, so there will be no anonymity within borders after that either.
Anonymity should be de-facto, and identifying should be users to decide themselves, not enforced.
Posted by thorn on Mar 1, 2010 quarter past five am
You don't actually need any proxy to watch the Report outside of the US; I watch it and The Daily Show every day in Australia. It's a bit of a fiddle though, so bear with me.
Go to the Video Clip part of the Colbert website. You'll notice these show without any restricitons. Grab the embed code and copy it to an html file. Edit out the superfluous links and advertising until you only have the actual embed tags. Look for the parameter that says:
src='http:// media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:XXXXXX ' That XXXXXX is the magic number; replace that for every episode you want to watch.
Now, to get that number, browse to the Full Episode page for that ep and view the source. Look for the img tag that has the following parameters:
class="niagara_image" src="http:// niagara.comedycentral.com/register/comedycentral/episodes/265301" Take that six digit number (265301), copy-paste it in to the html document you created earlier and, voilą, free Colbert/Daily episodes wherever you are.
(to make it easier, I have a php script that accepts the number in a text box and then automatically displays the embedded video for me)
Other people's comments:
Posted by Tuxie on Feb 23, 2010 quarter past eleven am
Posted by Travis on Feb 23, 2010 quarter to one pm
Posted by Mirko Schieder on Feb 24, 2010 five to one am
IMDB posted so: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298650/
Wasn't that the title of the book that inpired Monkey Island?
Posted by Nao on Feb 24, 2010 twenty past three am
I'm guessing you haven't been reading Monkey Island news sites for a while. ;)
Posted by Matrinka on Feb 24, 2010 twenty five to six pm
Posted by LM on Feb 25, 2010 twenty to two pm
Posted by Ciantic on Feb 24, 2010 seven am
Now it is impossible to get ICANN or any other party to accept the real anonymization of users, since corporations are monetizing on the knowledge where each user is located, and thus will go to worlds end to lobby that real anonymous users will never exist.
Shortly, in this matter, we have already lost an anonymity in internet, and can't claim it back.
This might turn out even worse when IPv6 networks will be released because each country could give identifying group of IP's for each citizen, so there will be no anonymity within borders after that either.
Anonymity should be de-facto, and identifying should be users to decide themselves, not enforced.
Posted by JustGuessing on Feb 24, 2010 twenty five to ten am
Posted by Someone on Feb 24, 2010 twenty past six pm
Posted by WhatAboutThis? on Feb 27, 2010 eleven am
Posted by thorn on Mar 1, 2010 quarter past five am
Go to the Video Clip part of the Colbert website. You'll notice these show without any restricitons. Grab the embed code and copy it to an html file. Edit out the superfluous links and advertising until you only have the actual embed tags. Look for the parameter that says:
src='http:// media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:XXXXXX '
That XXXXXX is the magic number; replace that for every episode you want to watch.
Now, to get that number, browse to the Full Episode page for that ep and view the source. Look for the img tag that has the following parameters:
class="niagara_image" src="http:// niagara.comedycentral.com/register/comedycentral/episodes/265301"
Take that six digit number (265301), copy-paste it in to the html document you created earlier and, voilą, free Colbert/Daily episodes wherever you are.
(to make it easier, I have a php script that accepts the number in a text box and then automatically displays the embedded video for me)