Despite reports that Australian radio broadcaster Triple J's Web site has been shut down by the Sydney Olympic organisers for streaming Olympic content, both organisations have denied allegations stating that no such action took place. 

"They haven't pulled the plug because we didn't start doing it, we're not streaming broadcast content of the Olympics on Triple J Web site," Program Director of Triple J Stuart Matchett said.

According to Matchett, Triple J ceased streaming radio signals of live Olympic broadcasts over the Internet on Thursday, September 14th, just before the Olympics commenced in Sydney.

They replaced the radio signal with a static file, "which explains (to Web site users) that we aren't streaming live radio broadcasting over the Internet," Matchett said.

The service is currently streaming recordings of live performances by Australian artists.

However, despite the reports that live coverage on the Internet is limited to NBCOlympics.com, a spokesperson for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) told ZDNet Australia that the ABC has broadcasting rights for radio and can stream Olympic content over the Internet -- although Triple J believed to the contrary.

"They can do whatever they want, they have the rights to radio broadcasting," a spokesperson for SOCOG said.

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