NFL slashes online video length
p2pnet news | movies:- NFL fans who are used to viewing clips online are about to experience a drastic reduction in the quality of videos hosted on corporate sites.
“In a move designed to protect the Internet operations of its 32 teams, the pro football league has told news organizations that it will no longer permit them to carry unlimited online video clips of players, coaches or other officials, including video that the news organizations gather themselves on a team’s premises,” says the Washington Post.
“News organizations can post no more than 45 seconds per day of video shot at a team’s facilities, including news conferences, interviews and practice-field reports.
And as usual, advertising dollars behind it all.
“As the Internet becomes a premier source for video reports, teams are increasingly competing with the news media’s Web sites for viewers and advertisers,” says the story. “By limiting access to news organizations, the teams hope to drive fans to the teams’ sites for exclusive information and clips.”
The biggest losers under the 45-second rule will be NFL fans, the story has Jim Jenks, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s executive sports editor and the outgoing president of the Associated Press Sports Editors, saying. It negotiated with the NFL over its online video policy since last fall.
“The NFL isn’t known for its objectivity or its reporting skill,” he says in the story. “It’s known for football. So fans won’t get the hard questions asked there, and newspaper sites won’t have the enriched content that we could do.”
Also See: Washington Post – Under NFL Rule, Media Web Sites Are Given Just 45 Seconds to Score, June 30, 2007
If your Net access is blocked by government restrictions, try Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies. Go here for the official download, here for the p2pnet download, and here for details. And if you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent web site blocking outside of China. Download it here.
rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php | | And use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
They can do and say what they want. But they are fools if they think you cannot find full length video games on newsgroups and torrents!
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I am sorry for the above quote….I MEANT to say….full length VIDEOS of NFL games…not PC or console video games of the NFL…though madden 2007 is also available on newsgroups and torrents…LOL!
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
This is sad. Do they really expect this will stop the people who are already utilizing their content without permission?
They put the NFL in INFLICT.