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[HunRon]

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[JoyBell]

Why do you even care?

I'm just grateful that there are free live snooker streams on the internet.

I don't understand why you think anyone would waste their time worrying about who's paying to provide a live stream when they get to watch it for free?

Maybe because we are looking at ways of providing streaming without going broke. I see a lot of stream sites promoting online gambling, so maybe these ones have investors who hope to get cashed up. But I wonder what happens when the investment dwindles and the investors dry up? I know that banner ads won't pay for it.

[gazza147]

I cannot get Live Streaming to Work!.....Is it working Janie!

[noel]

having a huge enforcement department constantly scouring for illegitimate feeds is probably not the answer ... it could be a case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em", ie use these feeds to provide a free distribution to increase your audience ...

Exactly Dandy. Exactly.

The digital revolution changes everything.
In particular, the old paradigm of a few controlling all the media and all the content.
This leaves those stake-holders wondering whether Elvis did in fact leave the auditorium.
From the grassroots a resounding "YES!" is heard [ and seen ] around the world.

My favourite website is TED. [ www.ted.com ]
which bills itself as "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world".

To the point you raised Dandy, this guys talk is like Digital Revolution 101.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/la...reativity.html

[ Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition ]

There has never been a cheaper, more effective, better way to grow snooker than NOW.


=o)

Noel

[Terry Davidson]

noel:

I don't know whether you got this or not, but there is a fellow here in Canada who has the WPBSA broadcast rights and he is planning to officially launch the site at the start of the worlds.

The website is - lovesnooker.ca -.

For the rest of TSF not from Canada, I didn't ask him whether it works world-wide, but I suspect not.

Right now he does have some matches from the Masters up there and video and audio quality are good

Terry

[magicman]

Noel - THANKS -

Ted looks like the site I've been looking for since I first started surfing.

[davidhawkes]

noel:

I don't know whether you got this or not, but there is a fellow here in Canada who has the WPBSA broadcast rights and he is planning to officially launch the site at the start of the worlds.

The website is - lovesnooker.ca -.

For the rest of TSF not from Canada, I didn't ask him whether it works world-wide, but I suspect not.

Right now he does have some matches from the Masters up there and video and audio quality are good

Terry

Thanks Terry.

I am in England, and have just viewed this website, where I was watching a recording from the 2009 Shanghai Masters. The quality is impressive - as good as my tv!

Just hope that live broadcasts are available.

[Terry Davidson]

Because of the licensing agreement he has with the WPBSA he says he cannot live stream the matches as he has to wait until the BBC sends him each session.

He says he has it all on automatic but there would be a 3-hour delay from the live matches which almost works out to Canadian's favour as we are 4, 5 (or more for Vancouverites) hours behind the UK

I'm surprised it can be accessed from outside Canada as he only has the license for North America (or so he tells me). He runs a media company and will be prociding this service for free and there will be a library of every match in the BBC's archives eventually and of course this will also mean you can watch all the latest matches whenever you want.

Terry

[davidhawkes]

I can watch the BBC live on my tv.

People in other countries may not have that privilege, so a 3 hour recorded delay is very acceptable.

[cox orange pippin]

Because of the licensing agreement he has with the WPBSA he says he cannot live stream the matches as he has to wait until the BBC sends him each session.

He says he has it all on automatic but there would be a 3-hour delay from the live matches which almost works out to Canadian's favour as we are 4, 5 (or more for Vancouverites) hours behind the UK

I'm surprised it can be accessed from outside Canada as he only has the license for North America (or so he tells me). He runs a media company and will be prociding this service for free and there will be a library of every match in the BBC's archives eventually and of course this will also mean you can watch all the latest matches whenever you want.

Terry

Terry, you mention that the guy who runs this new snooker site, lovesnooker.ca, has a license for North America, and that includes the USA, so we should be able to watch the videos too, correct? You seem to be making a distinction with regard to Canada, but if his license is for NA, that should include the US and Mexico (for that matter).

[JoyBell]

lovesnooker.ca has a license

I doubt if his service can tell where the viewer is logging on from, so this type of agreement is next to useless.

At best a licence like this can only apply to a home address or where the server is located.

[Forman]

I doubt if his service can tell where the viewer is logging on from, so this type of agreement is next to useless.

At best a licence like this can only apply to a home address or where the server is located.

The BBC was pretty effective at stopping anyone from outside the UK being able to watch their live streams, i know some people found a way round it by using a proxy but i heard was almost more effort than it was worth in the end.

This site sounds great!, would be great to have access to recordings of all the broadcast matches rather than just praying someone uploads the match you want to watch to youtube.

I do hope you're right about the site not being able to tell im logging on from Australia though

[Terry Davidson]

joy bell:

OK, then how do the BBC and Skysport limit their service geographically? From Canada I can't access either one and with the BBC feeds I get a notice that only UK residents are allowed and I am limited geographically.

Also get a similar notice from SkySport.

I'm fairly certain they can tell where you are geographically from your numerical IP address number as every country is assigned specific country codes within those IP addresses.

Terry

[cox orange pippin]

Terry,

Thanks so much for pointing out this new snooker site. The videos are top flight, although there aren't many right now. If he has a license, I wonder why he only has one match from the Shanghi tournament? I was hoping he'd have a large archive with all of the matches, but it's a nice start. Hopefully as time goes by he can upload more and more.

[ore]

would be great to have access to recordings of all the broadcast matches rather than just praying someone uploads the match you want to watch to youtube.

I heard about thebox once, of course here you would still need to pray, but the quality and length wise it's way better than youtube.
Don't think it'd be too legal; but then it's mostly british stuff on it, so I don't know much about it.
(Our most popular torrent site had a second trial recently, so far successful in those...)