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OSX Shut Out by FOX
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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FOX on-demand programming on myspace shuts out OSX completely, but it supports Windows dating back to 98SE. It really is a major bummer as I can't watch my shows on there.
myspace.com/fox
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
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i hope they add mac support soon, or i think FOX is a bastard
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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i bet it would work if you used camitools and camino (or another tool capable of this) to spoof your browser/OS id
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by CatOne
lol. myspace.
That's what I thought.
MySpace my a$$.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Oooh, it's Fair and Balanced!
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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It seems FOX uses an ActiveX control for their player, so spoofing the user agent wont help.
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I noticed this recently too. Who can I complain to? Or better yet can I just get permission to torrent their shows?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by SSharon
Or better yet can I just get permission to torrent their shows?
Just when you think you've seen it all, along come two words combined in a way never before seen.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Just when you think you've seen it all, along come two words combined in a way never before seen.
Hey, it saves them bandwidth costs and hate emails from me.
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Originally Posted by SSharon
I noticed this recently too. Who can I complain to? Or better yet can I just get permission to torrent their shows?
You need permission to download shows from torrent?
Oops.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Just when you think you've seen it all, along come two words combined in a way never before seen.
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Professional Poster
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Originally Posted by ::maroma::
You need permission to download shows from torrent?
Oops.
I thought the word legally was implied.
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If fox has a myspace, just leave comments on that myspace page. Tell them using activex controls for video players is retarded and makes no sense. Tell them to either do their video in flash so everyone can see it, like everyone else does. OR post all your video, as simple video files, twice. Once in windows media and once in quicktime. With all these articles about apple's marketshare growing, I suspect the few websites that still block out mac users won't continue doing so for long.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
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Originally Posted by SSharon
I noticed this recently too. Who can I complain to? Or better yet can I just get permission to torrent their shows?
I hereby grant you all necessary authority to torrent all fox content.
--Laurence
(Director of programming at Fox television)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by kmkkid
It seems FOX uses an ActiveX control for their player, so spoofing the user agent wont help.
Wow. Developers still use that?
Who'd they hire to design their website? Visual-Basic "programmers"?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally Posted by l008com
If fox has a myspace, just leave comments on that myspace page. Tell them using activex controls for video players is retarded and makes no sense. Tell them to either do their video in flash so everyone can see it, like everyone else does. OR post all your video, as simple video files, twice. Once in windows media and once in quicktime. With all these articles about apple's marketshare growing, I suspect the few websites that still block out mac users won't continue doing so for long.
Don't get your hopes up, there'll always be lazy programmers.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Rush will get this fixed ASAP.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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Originally Posted by Laurence
I hereby grant you all necessary authority to torrent all fox content.
--Laurence
(Director of programming at Fox television)
Sweet thanks.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by rdf8585
FOX on-demand programming on myspace shuts out OSX completely, but it supports Windows dating back to 98SE. It really is a major bummer as I can't watch my shows on there.
myspace.com/fox
i thought google was removing this kinda content?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Google bought YouTube.
MySpace is, IIRC, now owned by Rupert Murdoch, the same right-wing media mogul that brings you Bush TV.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Houston
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right, right ... i was thinking about youtube. but what does right-wing have to do with not allowing macs to access the site?
afterall, limbaugh is right-wing (and presumably so is jim 'mad money' cramer) but they are big apple /mac proponents.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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After you've sent your feedback, and while you're waiting... If you're using an Intel Mac, another solution is try out Crossover.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by lookmark
After you've sent your feedback, and while you're waiting... If you're using an Intel Mac, another solution is try out Crossover.
Or just turn on the tv. If you're trying to catch up, try tivo OR kick it old school and program that vcr.
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I have no lid upon my head. But if I did, you
could look iniside and see what's on my
mind.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Not being able to access Fox-now there's something I won't be losing any sleep over!
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Meanwhile, the Vicente Fox has not, nor has plans to shut out OSX from Mexico.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
Meanwhile, the Vicente Fox has not, nor has plans to shut out OSX from Mexico.
Méjico no nos desilusiona
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Originally Posted by GuyWithACamera
Or just turn on the tv. If you're trying to catch up, try tivo OR kick it old school and program that vcr.
Sadly, I don't even get local channels where I live. After rewiring an antenna and shoving it out the window I can barely pick up PBS.
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Mac Elite
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One Word.... TVRotsYourBrainEspecially_FairAndBalancedNoSpinTV_
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2000
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Originally Posted by Ron Goodman
Not being able to access Fox-now there's something I won't be losing any sleep over!
Agreed. That is until new season of 24 begins in January.
Speaking of 24, has anyone been able to get the season 6 trailer to work on their mac? The Flip4Mac plugin doesn't seem to work.
http://24trailer.com/
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Slick shoes?! Are you crazy?!
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