So we’ve entered a new era with Twitter/NFL GIFs/Vines
It appears that the days of going up to my TV after some crazy play and making a quick six second video are over. If you were following along last night on Twitter, you would’ve heard the news that the NFL and college football conferences are now filing DMCA takedown notices with Twitter over college football videos and GIFs. It appears that anything that happens on the field is officially off limits to those on Twitter. There’s still a question whether bloggers can make a video of a guy falling down stairs or something flipping the bird. As for MLB, they sent me a takedown notice last week for a Joey Bats video. That was the first time I’d ever heard from MLB over anything posted on the BC account. Baseball is notorious for killing accounts on YouTube and now I’m hearing that they’ve been filing so many complaints to Vine that accounts are being deleted. My dealings with MLB on YouTube go back years. They used voice-detection technology (probably still do… I haven’t uploaded anything to YouTube in a long time) that would pickup on the broadcasters voice and not allow that video to be uploaded to YouTube. How do I know? Because I would delete the audio on a baseball recording and it would get past the YouTube screening process.
[Barstool Sports’ Twitter account was suspended this morning.]
So that’s it. That’s the world we’re living in now. The freewheeling days seem to be over. You’ll now have to depend on all your real-time clips from the leagues. We know how that’ll go.
Numbers from @ESPNStatsInfo:
With Howie Kendrick’s home run in the 9th, there were 21 HR in tonight, most HR hit in a single postseason day.
