Is The NBA Trying To Hide Video Footage Of The Big Brawl On YouTube?
from the as-if-people-don't-know-about-it? dept
If you pay any attention at all to basketball, you heard about the big brawl this past weekend that ended in the ejection of 10 players. Like with just about any breaking news story that has a video component, plenty of people quickly found the video of the brawl on YouTube and blogged about it, embedding the video in their blogs. While it may not be the sort of publicity the NBA wants, it did at least get people talking about the game. However, as an aside in a post on the Freakonomics blog, Steven Levitt notes that the NBA demanded that YouTube remove all clips of the fight -- and, indeed, if you look at the videos that were linked to or embedded from the various blogs, all are now missing. This could just be the NBA continuing its history of misunderstanding the value of online content. After all, just a few weeks ago, there was some discussion about how the NBA wanted to aggressively stop its videos from appearing on YouTube. However, a quick search shows that there are plenty of NBA videos on YouTube. But, if you search on brawl and nba, you get plenty of videos of the infamous Pacers/Pistons brawl (that included the crowd) from two years ago -- but all of the clips of the latest brawl have been removed. It seems clear that the NBA is trying to hide this event to prevent people from seeing it. This seems particularly short-sighted. It's as if they believe that by removing the videos from YouTube, people won't know it happened -- despite being blasted all over the news, including seemingly endless replays. Forcing the videos off YouTube suggests that the NBA isn't trying to deal with brawling, they're just hoping if they hide the videos, everyone will forget about them.
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You can run... but you can't hide.
The NBA ceased being a sport (or even entertaining) a longgggg time ago. They should take a lesson from the NCAA if they want to be viewed as a real league again.
Hope the NBA dies -- attendance is falling and the fans are disappearing....
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Re: You can run... but you can't hide.
Thugs huh? Sounds kinda racist. Are players of other sports (like baseball & hockey) who get into brawls foul-mouthed, uneducated, ill-mannered thugs too?
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'Thugs huh? Sounds kinda racist. Are players of other sports (like baseball & hockey) who get into brawls foul-mouthed, uneducated, ill-mannered thugs too?'
Since when did playing games suddenly constitute their own ethnic demographic? And yes, players of other sports that get into brawls and the like are often considered thugs. Have you forgotten the headbutting Frenchman in the World Cup several months ago? For all that he put into the sport, it will be for the tantrum he threw at the end that he will be immortalized.
Even boxing draws the line somewhere at what is tolerated and what isn't. Tell me please, which of the organizations for these sports stuck their heads in the sand the way the NBA does?
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Your understanding of the English language is pathetic.
To answer your questions: Yes.
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Yo punkass jus don't like no black people. Y'Know what I'm sayin?
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The NBA always had its egos, but at least 10 or so years ago it was a pleasure to watch. These days, not so much. I'm not him, but I don't know what you're saying. Can you please elaborate?
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your stupid
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Others Have it
Asking a site to take down something days after it happened is such a useless gesture. Once it's out there, there's no going back. One day the NBA and others will truly realize the whole globalness of the web.
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Clearly...
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I think not!
It's called damage control. They have these obscenely visible and high profile athletes misbehaving, and want to limit the public access to seeing this.
The NBA obviously has other clips on YouTube (Mike pointed that out in his blog), so it is difficult to justify his stance that the NBA doesn't understand the value of online content distribution.
In fact, by disallowing content they feel is objectionable, and allowing other posts which they see as acceptible, the NBA is, in essence, admitting that YouToube has a very high impact on their product.
With these latest actions, the NBA isn't showing that they "don't get it," they are showing that they don't want to emphasize this specific incident. I believe a lot of TV stations take the same stance against limiting coverage of fans who streak across the field in an attempt to gain notoriety or political awareness for their cause.
I think the blogger was just trying to attach himself to a handful of other bloggers who are pointing out companies who refuse to admit that times are changing, and that business models should change with them. Unfortunately, the evidence he is submitting doesn't support his claim.
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Couldn't someone claim in court that NBA had abandoned their copyrights because they only took down offensive items, not all copywritten content therefore they tacitly agree to use of their copywritten material?
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Google Video
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One Word
'sall I'm sayin
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If the NBA had a brain...
The NBA straight up blows. It's one big pissing-match of egos.
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Re: If the NBA had a brain...
1. "they'd leave it on their" I think you mean there. The irony in this is hilarious!
2. The NBA, and any other major sport, targets the demographic with families and money to spend on THEIR families. Targeting a demographic without money will cost you your advertisers. Once your advertisers leave you lose the lucrative TV contracts. Once those are gone....well you can figure it out from here.
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Go to Google Videos and search for NUGGETS and watch the videos; take your pick of which one you want to watch!
DUHHHH!
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Not to burst a bubble or anything, but...
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Forcing Brawls Off YouTube
The truth is that as a crowd, "everyone" is going to remember what they can see on YouTube and will quickly forget what they can't see on YouTube. The NBA knows this and are understandably tilting exposure in their favor. Yes, I think most people are really that easily manipulated.
Sad, but true.
Actively engaged, opinionated and thoughtful people are the exception on the Internet, and everywhere else, not the rule.
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YouTube caving in to the NBA
The NBA should spend less time trying to hide the video and more time keeping their spoiled, overpaid and underskilled athletes in line.
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Educated
The NBA has to clean up its act. This is what the second fight in 5 years. Baseball there is a fight once a month. Hockey there use to be a fight once a game. Football, there is a fight once a game, is it televised, no, because that would be bad press.
Saying the NBA did nothing to try and prevent further fights. They players got suspended for 10 to 15 games. That is millions of dollars and I don't care how much money you make, millions makes a difference. The teams themeselves got fined 1/2 million dollars. I would like to say this is unprecedented, but I am too young to answer that question, but I bet it is.
NBA players are all thugs. And all white guys that post to this bored are all racists. Let's just generalize for ever.
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this fight is all over youtube, what r u talking a
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Seriously!
How much you getting paid by the NBA to spark their PR?
Damn, what a gay sport.
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megaupoad downloading
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