Comments on: Premier League Sues YouTube

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:53:00 +0000

Valid point Ahmed.

In discussions with a company that had seen the Premier League's RFP for their upcoming redesigned web site which may launch in time for kick off, video or video highlights wasn't part of the new site. No surprise there unfortunately.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 07 May 2007 07:56:00 +0000

you've got it wrong mate.

the source isn't YouTube (or DailyMotion or MetaCafe) - those are just the mediums.

The real sources are the free live streams from which people cap goals and then share those vids in forums, and then those get uploaded on sharing sites.

It's tougher to go after the streams, especially the Chinese ones, but it's a f'n embarrassment that the PL has to resort to lying and whining about it.

The easiest thing for the Premiership would be to start putting up highlights packages on their own site - for a fee of course. Make it legit and a lot of the 'dirty' sharing will go away.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 05 May 2007 04:14:00 +0000

This is infuriating. It’s hard enough to get access to anything from England out here, and I find it hard to believe that being able to see great goals and other exciting stuff will dampen my interest in the sport or the EPL.

By: Blue Blooded Journo

Blue Blooded Journo — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:35:00 +0000

I wonder if they ever thought that the brief clips shown on youtube actually advertises the EPL in the vastly untapped american sports community and will lead to larger and larger tv deals down the line? That will offset the $40,000/yr it would take to hire someone to browse the site looking for blatant violations like every other big media outlet does.