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[FYI] Olympics to Police Internet Broadcasting
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Tuesday August 29 2:12 PM ET
Olympics to Police Internet Broadcasting
By Daniel Sorid
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympics officials will be sprinting after
renegade broadcasters who attempt to deliver video of the Summer
Games illegally over the Internet, in what could amount to an
unofficial sideshow next month in Sydney.
Internet broadcasts of the Games have been effectively banned because
Olympic broadcasting contracts prevent companies from sending video
or audio signals outside of their own national or regional territory.
But in an age when anybody with an inexpensive Web camera and
Internet access can send an original broadcast around the world,
restrictions that keep Olympic broadcasting off the Internet are seen
by some as out of date.
``I don't think realistically there's anything to prevent someone
from putting a camera or taking a feed off Australian TV and --
against the rules -- streaming'' video over the Internet, said David
Bohrman, chief executive of Pseudo.com, a New York-based producer of
Internet video.
``The Internet doesn't know any international boundaries,'' he said.
But Olympics officials will be watching next month.
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