I’ve been watching online streaming video – a lot of it – for nearly two years. The quality keeps improving, and although there are still problems, gives me an amazing amount of ala carte TV from around the world.
And a lot of what I watch is often suddenly cut off in mid-show. “This stream has been suspended / terminated at the request of the copyright holder.”
So here I am watching Super Bowl LXIV- or trying to. Sure I could watch in on cable, but I don’t want to. Partly because Canadian cable will cover the SB commercials with local ads for Joe’s Garage.
Much of the streaming video I see is re-broadcast live from various networks around the world. Complete with the advertising.
Now if I was a TV network, and I knew Internet users were re-broadcasting my content – complete with ads – would I go out of my way to kill the re-broadcast and the ads that go with it?
Wonder what the advertisers think about that.
-g
PS – Watched the SB online. Streaming channels kept getting shut down, usually in the middle of an ad.
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