Tuesday, 12. August 2008
Topic: SPORT - on August 12, 2008 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now
Back in 2004, I wrote about how high-quality videos from the Olympics in Athens were being digitized and posted online, in defiance of the networks and the IOC's rules.
At the time, NBC's online coverage was pioneering, but still restrictive by today's standards — mostly highlight clips and no live video, delayed until after the events aired on TV, and required a valid credit card to verify residency in the United States.
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