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Update (2012-03-03): A while ago GomTV released GOM Player for Mac. You have to open the stream from Safari, but it seems to work. Get it on GomTV.net.

Recently GomTV decided to block any non-GomPlayer applications from accessing their streams. Effectively this means that paying customers using Linux or OS X are now stuck with only the VODs. Hence I can’t feel too bad for posting this workaround.

1. Go to GomTV.net, log in and go to the ‘Go Live’ page.
2. Copy/paste the Javascript for either the SQ or HQ stream into the location bar in your browser while you’re at the ‘Go Live’ page and hit Enter. (Thanks to the /r/starcraft redditors ‘mnjmn’ and ‘Gudeldar’ who came up with those Javascript snippets!)
   This will give you a personalized URL to the stream. Copy that.
3. Now open a terminal and execute the following command:
   curl -A 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' '<stream URL>' | vlc -
   Of course, replace <stream URL> with the URL you copied in 2 (but keep the quotes!).

Voilà!

You can of course replace VLC with any player that supports reading a stream from stdin, and if your system doesn’t have curl installed, you can use:
wget -U 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' -O - '<stream URL>' | vlc -

Note re OS X: As redditor ‘thedz’ pointed out, another way of doing it would be to simply use curl or wget to save the stream to a file and then open that file with your favorite video player. That goes a little something like this:
curl -A 'GomPlayer 2, 1, 28, 5039 (ENG)' '<stream URL>' -o ~/gsl.ogm
That saves the stream to ~/gsl.ogm (~ is a short way of writing /home/username (Linux) and /Users/username (OS X)), which you can open in any video player supporting OGM.