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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original broadcast around the world, restrictions that keep Olympic broadcasting off the Internet are seen by some as out of date.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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