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:
Filed Under: downton abbey, skit, snl
Companies: nbc universal, time warner
