Oscar Piracy created due to Hollywood Stupidity
You may have spent your Sunday night on February 22nd, 2009 catching the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Most likely, you watched the Oscars being handed out on your TV on ABC. The diversity shown at the Academy Awards this year definitely increased worldwide interest in the broadcast. On Twitter, messages abounded looking for an alternative way to watch the broadcast. Messages like these:
“Wanted to watch the #oscars the only channel I found broadcasting it in the Middle East was around an hour late. Bleh ill just sleep 5am”
“I want to watch the #oscars but have no TV – anybody got a link to online streaming coverage?”
It wasn’t long after the pleas and requests were made that a response was found on Twitter offering a link to a live broadcast being offered on Justin.tv. The link is here:
“LIVE Oscars 2009 81st Annual Academy Awards Broadcast – Enjoy! http://bit.ly/iORUu #oscars” – webaddict
There were also other live streams found on Ustream.tv too. What about YouTube? Well, YouTube provided a nice collection of pre-Oscar information and interviews but no live stream. The Oscars also offered their Official Oscars Channel which was also mentioned on the Inquisitr Blog. The Official Oscars Channel provided, “Road To The Oscars.”
In other parts of the Internet people were pounding Google with searches like: “oscar live stream, watch academy awards live, watch oscars live online, oscar live, oscars live stream, oscar stream, oscars live feed, watch oscars online, watch academy awards online, abc, academy awards 2008 live, academy awards live feed, watch academy awards live, watch oscars live internet, watch oscars online, watch academy awards online” …….. you get the point, right? Guess what, there are thousands more!
About two hours after the Oscars broadcast Google Trends was still showing they keywords: “Oscar Live Stream, Watch Academy Awards Live and Watch Oscars Live Online” in the top 100 most search terms in the United States.
So lucky for the people that could find it, they found their Live Academy Awards Stream on Justin.tv or over at Ustream.tv.
It just goes to show that the big networks, media companies, Hollywood and record companies have to take a beating before they learn. ABC.com could have broadcasted the Oscars Live on their site and collected ad revenue but instead they wanted to try and force everyone to watch it on TV. As usual, the Internet proved easy in circumventing that problem by broadcasting live streams in surpring good quality.
Do you think that next year the Oscars will be broadcast live on the Internet or will the networks decide to go ahead and let Justin.tv collect Google Adsense clicks and pageviews? Only time will tell but if you had to ask us? The record companies are just now catching on because they saw that providing legitimate easy online access to products can work as a business model.
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