NBCUniversal Pirates NBCUniversal SNL Skit That NBCUniversal Refuses To Put Online
from the right-hand,-left-hand dept
Danny Sullivan has an amusing blog post about his attempt to track down a Saturday Night Live skit that he wanted to watch online. Given how key the online audience has been to SNL over the past five years, you would think that, by now, NBCUniversal would have this process down cold, and would have all the skits easy to access and ready to go. Instead... for whatever reason, it doesn't have this particular skit that Sullivan wanted ("Downton Abbey Meets Spike TV"). He checked the official SNL page. No luck. He checked Hulu. No luck. Then he went digging... and he found lots of unauthorized versions, including in two unlikely places. One was on Time's website -- which is owned by Time Warner, a major media competitor to NBCUniversal. Time Warner also was a backer of SOPA/PIPA. Perhaps it should be careful about posting unauthorized versions of competitors' TV shows on its own site...But, even more interesting? Sullivan found an unauthorized copy at iVillage -- a site owned by NBCUniversal:
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Filed Under: downton abbey, skit, snl
Companies: nbc universal, time warner
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Cannibalism?
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Left Hand Right Hand
Or are they not knowing what they are paid to not know?
Any other choices?
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Let's be fair about this.
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Additionally, ip maximalists should send money to the tv/radio station every time they listen to the radio & watch broadcast tv.
Also, they should be entirely barred from every using any product which in any way stems from open-source or public-domain anything.
Thankfully, since that list includes most things related to wheels, electricity, & electronics we'll luckily never again hear from said ip maximalists ever again.
You douche...
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failtroll is fail, go back to bribing politicians and trying to make our lives worse with your idiocy, since you obviously can't cut it with actual facts.
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Please learn basic logic before you open your mouth again to avoid looking totally clueless.
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Case in point, making up grand stories about "piracy advocates" and a "pirate council" not only shows how ignorant you are, but completely delusional too. Seriously, if you believe any of this tripe, I've got a bridge you'd be interested in buying.
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Terrible. I nominate this statement for weakest attempt at trolling of the year. I know it's early, but I think it will hang in there with the best of the worst.
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Learned behavior
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If they (content owners) can't even police their own websites, why should anyone else be forced to?
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/sarc
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Can someone inform them of this...
How can we go about shutting down the Time Warner website for a month, to show Time Warner how to eat their own dog food?
I mean really, this is hypocrisy at its worst!
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Can't wait...
NBCUniversal, go SOPA yourself.
(Nice, SOPA is a four letter word too!)
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STRIKE ONE!!!
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NBC has now blocked the youtube video
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They are now blocking videos whose only significant use is their own.
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Infringement
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It's sort of like the anonymous dweebs claiming Tango Down on sites, when all they really did was overload a local router on their home ISP with their low tech "hacks".
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The video of the sketch was not uploaded to Spike. It was placed in two separate articles by staff writers at iVillage and the Time website.
Nice try.
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Entrapment
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