Suspected Aurora, Colo., theater shooter James Holmes's first court appearance Monday was pushed offline due to large interest in the subject and limits set forth by the courts.
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The Internet watched the suspect appear before a judge on Monday via local station KUSA-9News' live stream, but high-traffic volumes to the feed caused a series of audio and visual glitches to disrupt service for those watching around the world.
The District Court of Arapahoe County agreed on Friday -- just hours after the massacre occurred during a midnight screening of the Dark Knight Rises -- to allow expanded media coverage for the advisement proceedings on Monday morning. In his ruling, the judge allowed audio, video and still cameras into the proceedings, but with a strict set of limitations.
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The most pressing limitation was the limit of the single video stream -- in this case, KUSA-9News -- that was allowed to record the audio and video from the proceedings. KUSA-9News was also allowed to live stream the video and audio for Internet or live broadcast.
It looks like the court agreed to allow KUSA to live stream the proceedings -- and share the ensuing stream with a larger media pool -- in an attempt to get the coverage in as many places as possible.
Unfortunately, in practice, the traffic from the live stream took down the transmission online and on-air.
KUSA has since aired and edited clips from the courthouse that had been cut off during the live stream. Watch Holmes's court appearance below.
Image via KUSA-9News
This story originally published on Mashable here.