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You Can’t Watch SNL’s Hilarious -Downton Abbey- Sketch Legally Online, So NBCUniversal Pirates Itself

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daggle.com; By Danny Sullivan
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The Fail Recap. Have you kept up with all the fail going on here? Let me recap: No one can watch the sketch as part of the episode NBC/Universal provided for free on broadcast TV, because it’s been cut. No one can share an authorized version of the sketch, because NBC/Universal hasn’t yet provided one Those paying for Hulu Plus can’t even view the clip through one of NBC/Universal’s authorized channels. Media outlets wanting to write about it, not having an authorized version, effectively said screw it, we’ll link to an unauthorized one. One of those media outlets was owned by Time Warner, a major opponent of online piracy. Another of those media outlets was owned by NBC/Universal, so effectively helped promote piracy of NBC/Universal’s own content.

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