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IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video
An anonymous reader writes "The International Olympic Committee has ordered a blogger to remove a video from his website showing the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. The IOC asserts that it owns all the rights to all images taken at the games, and only licensed broadcasters can use them. However, the blogger, Stephen Pate, points to a Canadian law that allows copyrighted images to be used in newsworthy cases."
all the time, everywhere. We are the IOC.
We are the Voice of Control.
You will respect our Authoritay.
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Link to video please.
No, he meant queue. We're all busy spreading the latest iPhone jailbreak exploit right now. They'll have to wait in line for their turn to be Streisanded like everyone else.
> The US is leading in meddles
Certainly. Iraq... Afghanistan... hard for anyone else to compete!
Oops. Floydian slip.
I don't care why you're posting AC
you're taking the bar tomorrow, and you're posting comments on slashdot? what the hell is wrong with you?
I'd better go now, I have a midterm tomorrow.
weinersmith
The US is leading in meddles, so maybe interest is higher than anticipated.
Yes, we're some of the best meddlers around!
I have found there are just two ways to go.
It all comes down to livin' fast or dyin' slow. -REK, Jr.
You've got it exactly right, fredjh.
Seriously, they need to just show one event after the other. None of the backstory. None of the human interest bullshit. They think that just because most of the skaters are gay and the snowboarders are high that everybody who watches it is going to be more interested in a soap opera than exciting sports action.
It's actually quite insulting and condescending of the networks to assume that to get women or gays to watch sports they have to show this kind of fluff. Actually, a couple of the most gonzo sports geeks I know are queer and last night when I was watching USA whip Canada in hockey at the neighborhood sports bar, I distinctly heard them jeering at all the human drama crap.
Interestingly, this couple I'm describing were mocking the hell out of the male figure skaters for their slightly less than manly attire. You know that when you're dressed so gay that even gay people make fun of you, you're way out there.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You also watch Oprah, right?
Wait? Why am I in hell? God hates a bad luge performance?
Currently hooked on AMP
TV networks pad the coverage out with cheap human interest crap
Then make the human interest crap part of the games.
Seriously. Make it an event. Stand all of these athletes up, have them tell their sappiest, most heartwrenching story, and give the best one a gold fucking medal. They are all trying to outdo each other anyway, so let's make this competition legit.
The medal-count weenies will love it too. The conspiracy-theorists get another judged sport to bitch about. The wannabes can sit at home telling everyone how they could do it better.
Everybody wins!
That's because you're a fag.
And not fag in the "gay" sense. Just fag in the "fag" sense.
You are welcome on my lawn.
That wasn't your gun you were cocking, son, that was a blow dryer.
Now don't you have to run? I think Bravo is going to re-broadcast a Liza Minelli special. Shoo!
You are welcome on my lawn.
...so he's a cigarette?