So Rocket e-mailed a little while ago to point out a great Olympic hockey recap at Puck Daddy, complete with Ovechkin CREAMING Jagr video. Sweet, we thought. We hadn't seen the video yet. Let's have a look-see ... ah, well the video has been removed from YouTube. The dreaded pink message at the top: "This video contains content from International Olympic Committee, who has blocked it on copyright grounds." Undeterred, we tried several other YouTube uploads claiming to have the same play. Those, too, had been removed. Fine.
So we went to the NBCOlympics video page. They own the material. We suppose they should have the only access to it. Fair enough. Hey, there's the exact thing we want ... click ... oh wait, in order to watch a SIMPLE VIDEO we have to download Microsoft Silverlight. We're one simply step away, we're told, which is one more than we wanted. At this point, we're really questioning whether the video matters that much to us. See, that's how it works in "Internet time." But we decide it must be worth it. Everyone is talking about it. So we attempt the download. We get some sort of message about needing to use a certain version of Internet Explorer (which we don't use because it's vastly inferior to Firefox). We get a message that says we need to restart our browser. Maybe we did something wrong, but we're pretty sure we were in the clear. Regardless, we're done. We just wanted to watch a video. This is not how it works. We might never know how terrific that hit was. Thanks to everyone involved for making sure the buzz has been effectively killed. Please tell us how excellent it was if you happened to see it.
