NBC Lawyers In Panic Mode, Scrambling To Stamp Out Internet Olympics Feeds

Henry Blodget | August 8, 2008 8:58 AM

We view the Olympics as a global sporting tradition and consider ourselves citizens of the world, so we don't have much patience with country-specific broadcasting rights. Thus, we're happy that we (and you) can watch the Olympics live right here on on SAI.

(Frankly, we wish we could watch the Olympics on NBCOlympics.com, because their feed is marvelously crisp, but of course NBC is doing everything it can to prevent that. Specifically, NBC is trying to make us watch tonight, on tape delay, when the opening cermonies will be as stale as yesterday's bread. And when they do broadcast events on NBCOlympics.com, of course, they're not about to let us embed them.)

NBC views the 2000+ year-old global Olympic tradition as its own personal entertainment show and is therefore doing everything it can to prevent you (and us) from watching them live. For example, check out these takedown notices on veetle.com:

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12 Comments

HmmConvenient said:
I am sure that a major issue NBC has with the Olympics feeds and on demand content is the rights as dictated by the IOC. With so many countries having various streaming/ online rights; I am sure that geofiltering the content must be done to protect each broadcasters economics.

Just a thought...
Yes... Again done for benefit of IOC and broadcasters, not folks who want to watch Olympics.

NBC should be broadcasting every event live on the web, whether their feed or someone else's. The same for the broadcaster in each country.
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Nate said:
NBC did pay roughly $900 million for the broadcast rights (estimated $1 billion in ad revenue). I see their perspective in limiting who can stream what. I do although believe that the olympics is a world event and should be accessible for everyone to enjoy.
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