Why is there so little Olympics footage in the news? Here’s how the multibillion-dollar video rights industry works
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With Channel Nine holding the broadcast rights to the Paris games, other networks are hamstrung. Here’s how the system works.
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F the Olympics

Any large multi-national international competition with a significant public interest should have and require public access.

This is the reason? I was wondering why everybody’s talking about it but not showing it

Exclusivity is a failure mode for copyright. Mandatory licensing should’ve been the immediate goal as soon as Netflix started losing content. Blatantly awful for consumers - and we’re talking about giving companies money. If you sell a thing and find yourself going ‘well I don’t want to sell it that way’ then it’s probably because you have anti-competitive schemes in mind. We can’t tolerate that shit.

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In this chapter of “Capitalism ruins everything”

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For comparison, NBC in the US paid US$7.75 billion (A$11.8 billion) in 2014 for the rights to broadcast the Olympics until 2032.

At that much money, you can pretty much count on extreme amounts of corruption and thievery going on behind the scenes.

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B-but capitalism breeds innovation!

The thing that sucks about capitalism is that for as awful as it is, the idea that it breeds innovation is also true.

They are very creative in finding new ways to screw us over.

lol they tried to sue a company for saying a city name.

What a joke.

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The IOC sucks arse.

I really want to see the Olympics but I have to settle for highlights on YouTube. Lame.

If you don’t mind the commentary being in French, you should be able to watch the games on https://france.tv for free (needs an account). I don’t know if a VPN located in France is needed

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Nice thanks issues is I can’t read the site lol

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Firefox translates the page to whatever you like

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Am I just failing to use that site properly, or is it missing a ton of stuff in ‘replays’ that was available live?

I feel like the CBC had a better version of this thing 12 years ago.

It does seem different. Hard to say exactly why with only using it every couple years. Wondering if there is more lag time for uploads.

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