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Lots of good stats on viewership and the media methods at the Beijing Olympics.

Most interesting is the fact that YouTube was used to broadcast to countries who didn’t have a major service provider. People from other countries were blocked from those channels. This could mean in the future that information could be tied to specific locations in space.

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