Screw the corporate jackals

This is the story of one foolish megacorporation overstepping the mark only to be thwarted by the little guy and the internet. Internet giant AOL was the official online broadcaster for Live8 and transmitted all of the acts' performance both on the day of July 2 but also kindly made it available for subsequent viewing at your convenience. In fact, it's still there.

Trouble was (although less so now) that you were bombarded with ads, pop-ups and technical restrictions to watch anything. So a bit of detective work from blogger Ian Daye discovered you could easily watch them without going to the AOL site and he put up a list of direct links. Only the legal jackals got on his case and forced him to pull the page.

But - hurray! - not before another blogger took up the cudgels and replicated the links on his site. Hasten yerself over to Adam Richards' blog to drink your fill of video of every act in QuickTime format. The files are large but worth it.