grauzone wrote:
Just watched the Eurovision Song Contest. (That's the Biggest Annual
TV Event in Europe, Israel, North Africa, half of Asia, and Australia
and New Zealand.) Bands like ABBA of Sweden, were explicitly assembled
for the contest, and many winners enjoy a huge world-wide success later.
Now now, who would care about that contest? It's as crappy as most other
things on TV. That was that thing where viewers can vote for songs, and
the votes are listed by-country, right?
Yes, that's the one. As interesting as when some armored body builders
run all over a lawn, kicking and throwing an oblong ball, and each
other, while an entire nation stops, once a year.
One only needs to see it because everybody else saw it. Crap or not.
(Yay for using torrents, xdcc and mplayer as "TV set" instead!)
The day will come, pilgrim. The day will come.
Turns out Eurovision (a subsidiary of the European Broadcast[ers]
Union) "grid-casts" the show on the net. Now, the client to view with,
has an "interesting" EULA:
And I guess there's no way for playback with open source software?
And I tried to find out what they're using. All I found was a Flash
applet. Everything that uses Flash is ignored by me by default.
I'm not going to get even started on that one. Grrrrrr.
