The league is making noises about having to comply with federal labor laws regarding the use of player likenesses in promotional or advertising material, but that doesn't make that much sense in the context of simply listing players currently under contract and on team rosters.
I don't think they are under contract with the CBA expired. There was a similar situation with the NFL about a decade ago. All contracts were suspended until the lockout was resolved. Notably, players could do "dangerous activities" that their contracts prohibited them from doing.
Beyond that, the MLBPA holds exclusive rights to all player likenesses when multiple players are involved. That right is probably assigned to MLB for the purposes of the website by the CBA ... which no longer exists. It may be partly CYA, but they may be entirely correct that they aren't legally allowed to use those likenesses.
Not kink-shaming but what kind of esoteric stuff are you into that you have to go to shady Russian sites to get it? Most people can just go to Pornhub and get what they need...
In fairness to the reddit admins not taking action, the last time "amateur reddit researchers" made claims about someone, they called a random college student the Boston Marathon bomber and harassed his family to the point of a breakdown. And then it turned out the poor kid had committed suicide over a month before...
I actually never put that together but you're probably right. It's the sort of thing that incredibly out-of-touch old white men would think appeals to "the youths."
I found Techdirt in 2010 when Ars ran their insane, guilt-trippy screed against ad blocking. Someone linked me to a post here that took the counter view, which made much more sense to me. Then I started reading through the rest of the content and got hooked.
it's not particularly likely that a user's personal tethered hotspot would grind the Hofstra network to a halt if properly designed
Given that reports are their network ended up crashing even without the help of other people's personal tethered hotspots, I have little doubt that the network was not in fact properly designed.
MLB.tv is actually working really hard to get in-market streaming rights. All FOX RSN affiliates will have their local games streamed over MLB.tv in-market next year, and I'd imagine that other regional affiliates will follow suit soon. You still have to be a cable subscriber, but that barrier is probably going to fall soon. MLB is pretty progressive/innovative in terms of finding ways to get their product in front of fans, which is awesome.
If ISPs want to say that the content they deliver is their speech, then prosecute them for all the child porn, terrorist communications, and other unsavory content sent over their networks that law enforcement assures us is omnipresent and threatening our safety and security. Then maybe we can start over and regulate ISPs properly this time.
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I don't think they are under contract with the CBA expired. There was a similar situation with the NFL about a decade ago. All contracts were suspended until the lockout was resolved. Notably, players could do "dangerous activities" that their contracts prohibited them from doing.
Beyond that, the MLBPA holds exclusive rights to all player likenesses when multiple players are involved. That right is probably assigned to MLB for the purposes of the website by the CBA ... which no longer exists. It may be partly CYA, but they may be entirely correct that they aren't legally allowed to use those likenesses.
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Verizon's media acquisition strategy has been less "Go90" and more "Go 90s."
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Sounds like maybe you should try that more. :)
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Congrats on 20 years!
Properly designed?
Given that reports are their network ended up crashing even without the help of other people's personal tethered hotspots, I have little doubt that the network was not in fact properly designed.
What are they so afraid of?
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Based on how most of today's politicians turned out, get the kids more iPads.
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