What did I pay Gamespot $39 for?

I was waiting to watch the microsoft e3 conference yesterday, and when the show went live I clicked the live link and the timer reset another 30 minutes, the second time the timer ran out and the live show begun I got booted off the gamespot site with an error message, page cannot be displayed properly, and wasn't able to reconnect to the site until after the conference. I had to watch it on G4 through my DVR later that night.