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Where is the Webcasting?
epiphani asks: "This weekend the Womens World Cup soccer finals took place between Germany and Sweden, and a German exchange student, whom is staying with us, was very interested in seeing this game. We don't have cable television at home, however we do have broadband. Now, thinking an event such as this should obviously have a webcast stream somewhere, I went on a search so my German friend could watch the game. After looking for close to an hour, the closest thing I could find to live coverage was a text-based ticker that followed the game. Where is webcasting? Almost all radio stations now have live feeds to the internet, and yet a major sports event such as this doesn't have a video webcast? What is holding this back? The technology exists, and I suspect there would be demand. Are the cable and satellite television distributers preventing it to maintain their business model, or is there some technical aspect that hasn't been addressed?"
don't have to double pay fee's for the same broadcast it may happen. Probably just in time for you to see your broadband capped by your ISP for "over-usage".
They advertise watching movies via DSL/Cable (modem) access, but the reality is the media companies want the status quo because they fear the unknown.
This is the major weakness of our market economy in my opinion.
Lack of control over the medium is what's holding it back. You know those warnings at the end of baseball games? The "This has been a production of Major league Baseball. Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited without the express written consent of the commissioner of baseball" slogan?
They can't control what happens when you get it, there's any number of copies that they can make, and they don't get the revenue stream of commercials.
Big media is all about control, because that's where the money is.
Zapman
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