quick question

[Fillmoe]

why is it illegal for me to post a link to nba footage hosted on youtube but its perfectly fine for it to be hosted on youtube in the first place?

[leemajors]

it's not, they remove it when they see it.

[Fillmoe]

ahhh... ok....

[ashbeeigh]

It's some type of NBA rule, you have to have 'rights' to the video. If you listen to any game right before it starts they say something about "any reproduction without express written consent is forbidden." Thus, putting it on Youtube is illegal because whoever it is doesn't have the rights. Places like ESPN have the rights.

[ChumpDumper]

My quick answer is "damn."

[ALVAREZ6]

Well they do a shitty job at removing them from YouTube because there's hundreds on NBA videos on there that have been there for months and haven't been touched.

[Kori Ellis]

Well they do a shitty job at removing them from YouTube because there's hundreds on NBA videos on there that have been there for months and haven't been touched.

It's an ongoing process that NBA/You Tube are addressing. It's going to take them months to get them all removed.

But that doesn't have anything to do with our site. Here, you can't post any NBA videos or links to NBA videos that are unauthorized.

[White Goodman]

can you post other things that are not related to basketball from youtube?

[Kori Ellis]

can you post other things that are not related to basketball from youtube?


I am only concerned with copyrighted NBA video.

[White Goodman]

ok, so I can post videos of idiots making fun of themselves?

[Nbadan]

Pretty soon all the music videos, films, NBA, NFL, etc... and such are gonna be marked with non-removable digital watermarks that will tell YouTube software when copy-righted material is being posted on their site. This is why I can't believe Google paid so much money for that future napster, but the web will evolve.