MLB Stands With SOPA
Just in case you were wondering with all the news going on, MLB didn't go dark today because the Commissioner's Office has pumped about $1.5 million into congressional lobbying and campaign financing over the last two election cycles, with the distribution titled toward legislators friendly to the unpopular legislation. MLB is also listed as one of SOPA/PIPA's official supporters.
Angels Baseball has not made any publicly disclosed contributions to an elected federal official, although Arte recently gave $2,500 each to Mitt Romney and Matt Salmon, a Republican candidate for Arizona's 6th. He probably spent more lobbying CJ Wilson's agent.
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Does this really surprise anyone?
MLB is part of Big Media
If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?
I'm not sure why MLB feels so threatened
They’re much less vulnerable to piracy than the rest of Big Content, just by the nature of their product. People only care about sporting events while they’re actually being broadcast, after that, the content is much less valuable. Plus, the people who end up streaming an event online are often the people who couldn’t view it legally even if they wanted to (thanks, MLB.TV blackout policy!). I can’t imagine they’re losing much business over it.
I'm guilty of streaming sports broadcasts (not MLB)
And it’s because I can’t get the games legally.
Maybe if they put more thought into making their product more readily available….
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Jan 19, 2012 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
They charge you then black it out---irritating as all hell
"We are the JeDi, the ultimate power in the universe. We will do as we choose. And we will destroy any who dare stand in our way."
Ridiculous
How does it even make sense?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Jan 20, 2012 3:55 PM PST up reply actions
Shocking
For what it’s worth, SB Nation is standing against. I’d imagine the entire network (including HH) would be pretty screwed under either of these bills.
Crap like this makes me consider giving up on sports entirely.
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This makes perfect sense. The MLB is in the Stone Age with video, IMO.
It as if they are blind to how much allowing for the distribution of old baseball videos would help the sport’s popularity.
How can any person involved with baseball bitch about a lack of interest in the youth of today and not check what kids watch on Youtube?
If you want to get the sport popular with the youth, having kids happening upon clips of game-winners and amazing hitting performances or even the immeasurable number of random funny stuff that happens so often in comparison to other sports would be a huge help.
"I have one word for you...Be careful."
-Jose Guillen
by IE Angel on Jan 18, 2012 8:28 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
Selig sez:
“Every time you embed a video on the Internet, a Dominican teenager gets kidnapped by a baseball talent scout.”
Express Written Consent
Why do we even know these words? Baseball enjoys an anti-trust exemption and supports censorship in order to protect it’s assets. SOPA for MLB is about securing the rights to exclusive broadcast in foreign countries via the internet(AKA a monopoly). Free speech and freedom of thought are but a stepping stone to the revenue goals of MLB.
That being said……how’s Trumbo doing?
If you are against SOPA
click here to sign google’s online petition.
Just type your email and zip code and, optionally, your name. It takes no time at all
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by the king of CERA on Jan 18, 2012 9:08 PM PST reply actions
I've probably signed a dozen petitions on these bills and some worse ones in the past 3-4 months
Maybe this one will actually be paid attention to by congress…until they come back 6 months from now with a slightly re-worded bill with a cool new name like I-BONER, backed by the same interest groups.
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by Commander_Nate on Jan 19, 2012 8:51 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks for the link.
I signed and posted it on my Facebook.
Of course he gave money to a dude named Salmon.
He’s obligated to with a last name like that. And I’d like to echo that MLB needs to get it’s shit together with it’s video archives. They are sitting on a tremendous recourse they could leverage for a ton of money.
And SOPA blows. Sopa y tortillas con orchata , not so much
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
by NathanielS on Jan 18, 2012 10:23 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
I was kind of hoping that Artie was more like Warren Buffet...
Armor isn’t quite so shinny now.
I don't get it
I’ve read the entire bill and I don’t get what the hooplah is all about.
Evidently, it makes it REALLY easy to shut down a site someone "suspects" is in violation
Well, come see a fat old man some time!
Basically it puts politicians and public service beaurocrats in charge of internet content
Would you want a DMV worker or airport security worker deciding what content you can access on the internet?
CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!
THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT!
That’s the intent from the git-go.
Politicians trying to CONTROL YOUR LIVES.
After a long time of futility, the internet has finally honed a very good model for making money. Ergo, carnivorous politicians have decided this is the time to make their move. MOVE IN. TAKE OVER. CLAIM IT AS THEIR OWN DOMAIN FOREVERMORE.
Once a precedent has been established, it’s only a matter of time before restrictions, AND TAXES, creep and abound.
Thankfully, for the time being, opposition voices are being heard.
Unfortunately...
…the public is still a long way from even a Mathis-like level of success.
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by Commander_Nate on Jan 19, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
Ask a Chinese or North Korean person what their internet access is like
Eventually that’s what either of these bills would probably lead to here.
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by Commander_Nate on Jan 19, 2012 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Watch out.....
Unlike this cat, my love for the LAA will never die.
by NathanielS on Jan 19, 2012 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
And a lot of stuff you can't even access because it's blocked by censors
Complaints about this lead to what you describe.
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by Commander_Nate on Jan 19, 2012 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
Obama has vowed to veto these bills should they pass both houses
Ain’t gonna happen, not for a while at least. And even if Republicans win all three branches next fall, I have a hard time seeing these bills turn into laws. People love their youtube too much to let the internet become just another version of cable television.
Thanks for the fanshot. I was wondering about this legislation and MLB/Angels/HH. Seems like battle lines are drawn. Bloggers against the sport they love and even their own teams. No, not against the teams and sport, against the current ruling mechanisms. They are the feudal lords, trying to hand onto power. We are the serfs (maybe surfs in SC), fed up with the bullshit. The internet’s been a revolution. These laws are attempts to restore the old powers. If history teaches us anything, it’s that you can’t undo a revolution. You can smash it violently, but you can never bring it back to where things were.
by Rock Island Line on Jan 19, 2012 6:26 AM PST reply actions
What do republicans have to do with it???
You DO realize it has bi-partisan support and some of it’s harshest critics ARE republicans, right?
They'll oppose it until the wording is right
Then when they have it full of total control, and as some heavy pork on another bill, will Barack will sign it into law. Probably sometime next December when they extend the budget for another month, before shutting down the Fed Government. You know he/they can’t do it before the Election.
Obama Administration?
Try Hedley Lamar Smith, R from Texas. and Patrick Leahy D from Vermont.
The Congress is going to do what they usually do….wait til something important is on the table and bury it in that bill.
"We are the JeDi, the ultimate power in the universe. We will do as we choose. And we will destroy any who dare stand in our way."
Of course he'd donate money to Mitt...
But $2,500? That’s pocket change for Mitt Romney…
Representing the Angels in Sin City.
by maze88 on Jan 19, 2012 8:19 AM PST via mobile reply actions
I'm assuming that's directly to him?
Who knows what Arte, or anyone else like him, might be donating to Super PACs that support their desired puppet.
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by Commander_Nate on Jan 19, 2012 8:54 AM PST up reply actions
Campaign Donations
Just because Arte gave money to politicians doesn’t mean that Arte or those policticians support SOPA.
And it is spelled ‘sopapilla’.
I never implied that he did
It’s not news to anyone that Arte is a conservative. He’s contributed a remarkably small amount to election funds given his means, but that doesn’t have anything to do with SOPA.
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