NHL cracking down on youtube contents

[DVLEsq]

Originally Posted by trdi

No, you haven't. Youtube has no choice, it's not their content at all. You have not explained why would a decision to block video availability be rational. You are saying that their decision is rational, because they have the right to do that. That's nonsense.

YouTube has a choice - they can choose to take down the content in its entirety. Instead, they choose to work with the content owners and allow content to remain with advertising - and shared revenues - rather than taking it down.

I have given multiple reasons why it is a completely rational decision. You may not agree with it, but it is a rational, well thought out decision by a rights-holder doing what it thinks is best to preserve its rights. Rather than taking the extreme approach of taking the content down entirely (which would also be within its rights but would trigger a backlash among its core fan base), the NHL took a hybrid, compromise approach and is allowing content to remain where it is viewable by fans in its largest markets. It sucks for international fans, but it is a perfectly rational decision.

[trdi]

Originally Posted by DVLEsq

YouTube has a choice - they can choose to take down the content in its entirety. Instead, they choose to work with the content owners and allow content to remain with advertising - and shared revenues - rather than taking it down.

I have given multiple reasons why it is a completely rational decision. You may not agree with it, but it is a rational, well thought out decision by a rights-holder doing what it thinks is best to preserve its rights. Rather than taking the extreme approach of taking the content down entirely (which would also be within its rights but would trigger a backlash among its core fan base), the NHL took a hybrid, compromise approach and is allowing content to remain where it is viewable by fans in its largest markets. It sucks for international fans, but it is a perfectly rational decision.

I'm not going into some useless "you said this, I said that" debates. I just hope that you learned something from this. For instance that most of the people posting on this forum are intelligent enough to know what is copyright and what can a copyright owner do. Are you a teacher or something, because they have this professional deformation - explaining obvious things to people around them (and completely missing the point by doing that).

Anyway, I'm done with this.

Originally Posted by Defgarden

It's perfectly rational, I just don't think it's a good move on their part. It's not doing them any good.

Actually, that's what I (and 99.9% of posters in this thread) were trying to say. Maybe I didn't use the correct word or could have used a better one. But I did explain what I meant.