‘Owners’ of Real-Time Sports Data Bowled Over

By Simon Brandon-Lai   In January, a British man attending a match at the Australian Open tennis tournament was arrested for sending contemporaneous match information to a betting agency using a device concealed in his clothing. Although since cleared, he was accused of “courtsiding” — exploiting the short time lapse between real time events and the television broadcast to place bets before odds can be changed. While the nefarious use of contemporaneous match information for gambling