The state of online content for the Olympics in the digital age: 2 live streams and plenty of nothing…
You know, it’s getting to the point now where writing about the absurd and asinine decisions by media executives just isn’t fun anymore. Instead, anger and frustration have largely taken over, removing some of that childish joy I used to get. So who’s done it this time? NBC. No, this isn’t a repeat of the Conan O’Brian/Jay Leno fluster cluck that radiated throughout media world last month. This time it involves something a bigger than a simple TV show. It involves the Olympics.
The last Olympics flat out sucked to watch online. Well, that’s because there was hardly anything online. NBC put a few stray events online for streaming that were of little interest to the mass population. In turn, that caused those monitoring the last Olympic’s online viewership to conclude that customers “don’t really watch the Olympics online, they go their for stats and highlights instead”. If stats and highlights are the only thing consumers have access to, then no shit. That reasoning is exactly what NBC is using in defense of blocking most of the Olympics from live online streams.
And no big publicized event can go on without some mention of the evils of piracy ruining the world with Rick Cotton, the dumbest human to ever walk the planet NBC General Counsel, claiming that the whole big live stream limit is to prevent piracy. Don’t these people read the internet and see that most of the general population thinks these people are quacks? How does limiting access to a highly sought after event prevent piracy? As TechDirt notes, it increases it. Give the people what they want and they will fill your pockets with cash. Go against what they want to make a quick buck yourselves and no body comes out happy.
Looks like I, along with countless other individuals this year will have to go out in search of illegitimate live streams of the Olympics just to get our fill. Gee, Conan O’Brian was right. NBC does stand for Nothing But Cocksuckers.
**BTW: The only two events being streamed for the winter olympics are Hockey and Curling.
Author: Mike Norris
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