Posted on 02/01/2011 3:41:32 PM PST by camerongood210
Rough day for NFL fans. First, a ruling gives the league and owners much better positioning at the bargaining table by ruling that the lockout insurance is legit, and now two popular online video streaming sites have been seized by the U.S. Government.
Channelsurfing.net and Atdhe.net were sites that linked to broadcasts of NFL games and plenty of other television shows. I'm not sure if this applies to Atdhe.net or not, but Channelsurfing.net did not actually host copyrighted material, it embedded from other sites that did so.
Yes, both of these sites operate in a gray area of broadcasting copyright law, "gray area" probably being a little generous. Nevertheless, lots of people used those sites, not that we would ever endorse such behavior, but it is notable and worth comment given just how popular they were.
It's nothing more than coincidence, but what a coincidence it is that these two services get shutdown the same day the NFL won a big decision regarding its own broadcast revenues...and just a few days after the Egyptian government cut off internet access to unsuccessfully quell a peaceful revolution in their country, not popular uprising against tyranny is the same as popular ways around the tyranny of blackouts.
I guess this is MUCH more important.
FWIW, HULU.com went ‘down’ over an hour ago.....
AMEN! Plenty of time for these penny-ante games, but 30 million illegals they can’t even see, let alone do anything about.
No it didn’t. Hulu is a legal streaming site used by television networks.
Hulu is a legal streaming site used by television networks.
Interesting.....I was just using Channelsurfing.net last night to get updates on Egypt.
They have all the cable news sites and most sports channels streamed from different hosts.
What’s next?.......the NY TIMES online for collaborating with Wikileaks. Yeah right.
I’m starting to get that hard tyranny feeling.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a warning from the federal government: behave or the Internet will be shutdown.
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How is this different from the Government determining that Fox News is broadcasting illegal content and shutting them down?
The NFL has a lot of influence in Washington.
Heck the Steelers owner gave Obama so much money he got made an ambassador.
So you can understand that anything undercutting their profitability (such as bypassing their tv deals) is going to get a bunch of legal attention.
It's different only in magnitude of importance.
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Is there any LEGAL -not free- stream of the super bowl?
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(I’d just discovered adthe, darn it, a good site for finding legal streams too )
From a legal standpoint, I’m really quite curious.
Can they seize private property without due process?
Rhetorical question. They’re doing it. How far are they going to push it?
They could seize 10,000 conservative site’s domain names and make them go dark overnight. The State Run Media would no doubt ignore the story.
just went to atdhe.net still up.
This is what greedy people do in the sports world known as the nfl along with government/the mafia x 10 to be even greedier while taxpayers pay for these stadiums.Taxpayers should never fund any sports stadium and on top of that these crooks charge 9.00USD for a hotdog or beer.CROOKS!
I just went there and the page says the site has been seized by ICE.
By shutting down the little ones, it prevents the big ones from having fallback ways to get the word out.
This may be the first step to a kill control on the internet - only government approved streaming sites on the internet.
It’s down via AT&T/government rat/ here.
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