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US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online
Monoman writes "The Washington Post reports, 'The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics start tonight. But if you're among the 9 percent of U.S. households who have broadband but don't subscribe to paid television, it will be nearly impossible to (legally) watch the games online this year. ... That's because while NBC is streaming all of the events live online, full access to the livestream will only be available to paying cable subscribers. And thanks to a $4.38 billion exclusive deal NBC struck with the International Olympics Committee (IOC) in 2011 for the privilege of broadcasting the Olympic games in the U.S. through 2020, cord-cutters don't have a lot of options.' Is this a money play by Comcast/NBC to get some subscribers back? Should the FCC step in and require NBC to at least provide a stream of their OTA content?"
That article is not in English. It is in corporate speak. Literal translations follows:
"fuck you"*
*Corporate speak is a highly stylistic language with a very low content/word ratio. It looks nice, but it needs a lot of words to convey a short and simple message.
Let the Olympics die. The International Olympic Committee and a large percentage of the national committees are some of the most corrupt organizations in the world. Fuck 'em.
You shouldn't let a corrupt organization ruin it for the rest of us. The Olympics are about athletes and world cooperation, not bureaucrats.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The Olympics are about athletes and world cooperation, not bureaucrats.
Getting a bunch of amateur sports teams together to play series of tournaments does not require fifty billion dollars in infrastructure.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
No, its not that bad its more like this.
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