| If you want to watch the Superbowl on your | | | | However, there are a few ways you can watch |
| computer, then you have a very limited set of | | | | the Superbowl on your computer. They just |
| options. You can of course hook your cable box | | | | aren't simple. First, you can set up a sling box. |
| up to the computer and then watch the game | | | | This little device will sit on top of your cable box |
| that way. That's probably the easiest thing to do, | | | | and stream the feed through the Internet to any |
| but I'm guessing that when you ask "how can I | | | | location. So, if you're stuck in Osaka, Japan and |
| watch the Superbowl on my computer," you are | | | | want to know "how can I watch the Superbowl |
| actually asking how you can do it through the | | | | on my computer," you can ask a friend to set up |
| Internet. | | | | their cable box with a slingbox and watch the |
| The simple answer is that you can't do so. To the | | | | game that way. |
| best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as | | | | Another way you can answer the question, "how |
| a streaming feed of the Superbowl online. The | | | | can I watch the superbowl on my computer," is |
| reason for this is that the network that buys the | | | | by using one of the free streaming TV services. |
| right to show the game paid the National Football | | | | Some of them, such as TVUNetworks and |
| League millions of dollars for the right to show it | | | | SopCast will have streaming feeds of the game |
| and they are highly unlikely to relinquish that right | | | | as well. Basically, they work similarly to a slingbox |
| to someone who wants to see it free over the | | | | in that someone needs to be streaming it through |
| net. | | | | their computer onto the net. |
| But what if you live in a foreign country and | | | | The difference is, that you don't need to be |
| desperately want to know how can I watch the | | | | concerned with who is streaming the game. |
| Superbowl on my computer? Again, the simple | | | | These programs use a peer to peer sharing |
| answer is: you can't. While the World Series is | | | | service, similar to Bit Torrent to allow you and all |
| available for anyone in a foreign country to watch, | | | | your friends to see the game through your |
| streamed live from MLB.TV, the National Football | | | | computer since at the same time you're watching |
| League has no such arrangement. | | | | that amazing touchdown, you're also |
| Although the good news is that you will likely find | | | | simultaneously broadcasting it to someone else |
| it broadcast on the local ESPN or Fox Sports | | | | watching in a computer nearby. |
| channel, regardless of who carries it domestically. | | | | |