12 April 2008
On Totalitarian Sports Leagues
Posted by Aditya under: Indian Premier League .
With the ongoing wrangling between the Indian Premier League and the media — with sections of the media threatening to boycott the league entirely — I happened to stumble across a similar incident concerning the American National Football League. Apparently they had placed limits on other sites showing online footage of their content in order to protect the NFL’s own “internet business interests”; most insane of their rules was that only a maximum of 45 seconds of NFL footage could be shown per day online.
The Houston Chronicle made a hilarious video showing how silly such a restriction can be:
