Why is there so little Olympics footage in the news? Here’s how the multibillion-dollar video rights industry works.

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Why is there so little Olympics footage in the news? Here’s how the multibillion-dollar video rights industry works

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In this chapter of "Capitalism ruins everything"
- 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.
- B-but capitalism breeds innovation!
  
  They are very creative in finding new ways to screw us over.
  
  The thing that sucks about capitalism is that for as awful as it is, the idea that it breeds innovation is also true.
The IOC sucks arse.
lol they tried to sue a company for saying a city name.
What a joke.
F the Olympics
I really want to see the Olympics but I have to settle for highlights on YouTube. Lame.
- VPN, pick Canadian server, go here https://www.cbc.ca/player/sports/olympics/summer/replays
  
  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.
- 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
  
  Nice thanks issues is I can't read the site lol
- Check out https://privateiptvaccess.com/
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.
This is the reason? I was wondering why everybody's talking about it but not showing it
Any large multi-national international competition with a significant public interest should have and require public access.

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