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These Numbers Prove the Sports Television Bubble Is Leaking

2 pointsby x43bover 8 years ago

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visargaover 8 years ago
Maybe it leaks in the form of accessible online video streams for sports. I didn&#x27;t watch the 2016 Olympics because I don&#x27;t use TV any more. I suppose that, just like me, many are going to become indifferent to streaming sports. So sports teams have to pick between strangling sport video to death on TV or releasing it on the internet.<p>But, you know what? It is a wealth of content out there, if a publisher or a whole category of publishers are jealous and want to sit on their content instead of releasing it, I will find something else more accessible and rewarding to spend my time on. I am consuming mostly user generated content at this stage, anyway, so losing big corp content wouldn&#x27;t affect me that much.<p>A similar tragedy of content sharing is happening with the BBC radio and TV archives. They clock 1 million hours of content between them yet, on account of copyright considerations, it can&#x27;t be shared online. In the meantime YT is filled with cat videos and the wonderful BBC content doesn&#x27;t get commented on, shared, tweeted, indexed and found by anyone. It suffers a digital death of being unlinked to the web. Instead of an amazing recording of a symphony from BBC Proms, people open YT and play the same piece shared by the Student Orchestra of Bucharest or something. Too bad for great content that it gets to live in a locked box.