2010 Olympics censors nail Jabber J, aged 8
p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- Copyright has become a major negative feature with the Olympics committee imposing ridiculous restrictions on who can do what in reporting, and commenting on, the games currently being staged in Vancouver, Canada.
Could things get worse, more farcical, with the dictatorial IOC and their acolytes?
They could, and they have.
Now the ever-vigilant IOC has jumped on eight-year-old Jabber J (right).
In their eyes, she’s a copyright criminal.
Well, I mean you can see it all over her face. Right?
She had the gall to clip 10 seconds of a ski run featuring biathlon competitor Megan Tandy, one of her favourites.
And then, and then, she had the temerity to post it online so other people could share her pleasure.
There. I’ve said it.
“As a Canadian I believe we need to be vigilant to the censorship of the IOC and other governing bodies”, says her dad, Rob, in a Reader’s Write, going on >>>
“Our children should learn to recognize these infringements and we as parents sometimes need to show them that this is wrong. ‘O Canada we stand on guard for thee‘.
There is a reason why we as Canadians take this oath as we award our athletes for their excellence and their service to themselves and their country.
Today one of my daughters’ YouTube videos was censored by the IOC. I invite you to check out this over-the-top censorship at the Virtual Whistler blog.
Says the post on Virtual Whistler >>>
Well I had heard about this happening to others and today it has now happened to someone within my circle.
The author is an 8 year old girl (JabberJ) who posted a short 10 second video of one of our fellow Canadian athletes, Megan Tandy.
Megan, if you read this please comment. [Our emphasis.] I encourage everyone to click and check out the video and leave your comments on what you think about it. It was removed from YouTube so I had to post it on my personal server.
Where do you draw the line of censorship? ‘Sheep look up’. This is Canada, but regardless, this over-the-top censorship should not be tolerated at all simply on principle.
By allowing such a simple and innocent act to be ruled upon within a public forum is to accept that we are allowing ourselves to accept big brothers approval in our own social communications and our life experiences.
We live in a new age where we openly share our lives with our ‘friends’ and that this sharing is the choice we make. If that is the way we choose to communicate we should have the right as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
I ask you, is there any way that this video infringes on the rights of others. Is NBC or CTV going to loose any advertising revenue because of it?
This simply has to stop. I would expect an apology from the IOC representative who did this to this little girl so that she can understand that censorship of this sort is not acceptable. This is not about just a simple removal of a video, this is about having our children grow up to understand that we have rights and we should not tolerate it when governing bodies take those rights away from us.
Click here to get a copy, or just head over to VirtualWhistler to see the offending item.
And stay tuned.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Virtual Whistler blog – IOC – Internet Over-the-top Cop’s, February 17, 2010
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February 18th, 2010 at 9:55 am
The only way we’re gonna stop the Idiots Only Committee is by hauling their corrupt asses into a court of law. I’m Canadian and I”m tried of seeing the games fixed in favor of foreign athletes and corporations. “FIXING IN FAVOR OF FOREIGN ATHLETES” you say, “NEVER!!!!” Look at China where all their athletes in the gymnastic program were under age, the score fixing in the figure skating the Olympics before that. Hell, we’re not even allowed to take pictures or video of our own and post it online as the IOC claims it’s a breach of their copyright. I’m so damn sick and tired of hearing of this breaches copyright of Joe Blow and that breaches copy right of Hanks Banks, so you can’t post it. I think it’s about time that someone took this bunch of crooks into a court of law and made them shut up permanently. I refuse to watch the Olympics any more as it’s gone from games of friendship to games of corporate greed and bribery, the original Olympians are spinning in their graves and if they could come back to life I can guarantee that the corrupt morons running the games now would be running for their lives. People the world over should boycott this misbegotten poor excuse for Olympic Friendship until we get the bums and corrupt officials gone and we can have the Olympian games as they were meant to be, contests of pure athletics not politics, greed, or drug enhanced athletes who harm themselves by ruining their reputations by the very use of performance enhancing drugs and the shame they bring to their home countries for doing so.
February 18th, 2010 at 10:53 am
The Olympics are a Public Event, thats so sad.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:25 am
The purpose of Copyright – at least in the USA – is to ensure that Authors, artists and inventors are rewarded for their efforts.
Question: How does this “crime” rob creative people? What impact will this have on sales?
Answer: It doesn’t. This is a corporation yelling “THEY HAS STOLEN THE PRECIOUS THEY HAS, AND WE HATES IT FOR EVAH!!!”
Copyright is not, and never was, ownership.
In my book, posting a ten-second clip is reasonable fair use. Unfortunately, the aforementioned corporations view Fair Use the way a vampire views wooden stakes.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I am glad that people at such a young age are exercising their right to free speech and helping others. I’m just not glad that the girl didn’t use some way to protect her identity before uploading. Maybe this girl can post an article about why its good to use vpn/etc in all mainstream newspapers that covered this story. That should help.
February 18th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Wizard Prang, no that’s the fairy tale you’re told at school.
Copyright is an 18th century privilege intended to reward the press in exchange for the state’s supervision of an obedient and disciplined press.
Copyright is the derogation of the individual’s inalienable and natural right to liberty, specifically the suspension of their natural right to copy. That’s why copyright is so called – it suspends your right to copy to grant it as the privilege of the ultimate holder. These were once wealthy owners of a printing press (members of the stationer’s guild). Today those copyright is intended for are multinational publishing corporations. That’s why orphan works legislation is being introduced, so corporations can use anything they find not yet claimed by any other corporation (and reassert copyright over it).
Copyright is a corporate privilege and that’s why the IOC is slapping the little people around who fail to show proper respect. If a corporation such as Google stepped over the line, things would be sorted out a little more nicely.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
I don’t see the difference between the entertainment cartels and the Olympic committee. Same greed, same low moral standard and same stupidity.
Ho! wait! I fond a difference! The Olympic committee is also Sexist!
Anyway I am BOYCOTTING the Olympics.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
^^ They’re all the same, mate.
But these are just the last twitches.
Cheers!
February 18th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
The IOC are a bunch of authoritarian nut-jobs and it shows in how they conduct themselves. Remember five or ten years ago when they were caught taking bribes in the form of cash, drugs, and hookers? Nothing but a bunch of elitist pigs running a corporate farce called ‘the Olympics’.
I haven’t watched more than 10 seconds of these lame-ass events, and that ten seconds was that luger going over the rail on the poorly designed and unsafe track, and that 10 seconds was in an online video. I’ve got better things to do with my time.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
“She had the gall to clip 10 seconds of a ski run featuring biathlon competitor Megan Tandy, one of her favourites.”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!
Call the monties! the FBI, the CIA, the air force the marine, the police, the special forces, the weird forces, the submarines, the F16, the drones, the Raptor, the F10, the. . . the. . . the. . . .
February 18th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
was it her own youtube account? is it was she is lucky her account is still up seeing she doesnt meet the age requirement for youtube. the IOC also claims ownership of the luge accident and has been having those removed from youtube but yet the video is on ABC yet NBC has the US broadcast rights
February 20th, 2010 at 6:09 am
“the IOC also claims ownership of the luge accident”
If I was them I will claims ownership of the body too!