{"id":4783,"date":"2008-08-12T13:02:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2008-08-12T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T20:02:19","slug":"nbc-using-p2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/nbc-using-p2p\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC using P2P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDownloading Olympics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/olympicsonthego\/browse_by.shtml\">programming in HD from NBC<\/a> involves using a private P2P network, some DRM, and a little bit of luck. After a few mishaps, I&#8217;m finally subscribed for some automatic Olympic programming updates. <\/p>\n<p>I had to use Explorer to do this, as Firefox 3 isn&#8217;t supported by the DRM plugin NBC uses, and neither is any form of Linux or any version of Windows older than XP SP2. But that&#8217;s OK as my current home setup runs Ubuntu in a virtual machine alongside Windows Vista. So we have no more dual-booting or any of that nonsense. The ease with which we can switch operating systems these days is sick.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading Olympics programming in HD from NBC involves using a private P2P network, some DRM, and a little bit of luck. After a few mishaps, I&#8217;m finally subscribed for some automatic Olympic programming updates. I had to use Explorer to do this, as Firefox 3 isn&#8217;t supported by the DRM plugin NBC uses, and neither &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/nbc-using-p2p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NBC using P2P&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peer-to-peer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1f9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}