Fortunate to watch Tuesday evening. Noticed it's now been removed and replaced with the above message. Appears the BAA cronies need their $$$ for everything. Can easily go back and watch London , Tokyo and nearly every other major marathon, or road race with the exception of anything the BAA has their mits on.
That's because most of us are trying to find it and pull all the stupid Rawson/Trautwig comments and laughable graphics, to then re-upload to YouTube to make fun of NBC.
BAA has to keep the licensed use of the broadcasts or anything with their logos as exclusive/with their permission.
If the BAA did not enforce exclusivity, then it could lose it. So if someone were to one day use the logos/broadcasts for something else and the BAA tried to stop them, the offender could say "you left all these videos up on YouTube and didn't say anything now.
And the Offender would be right.
BAA most likely has lawyers telling them you can't let violations go or you risk losing your rights to anyone who wants to copy and distribute what you own.
That's a shame. Who do BAA think they are to get in the way of the might Josh Cox marketing PR train?
Did it ever occur to any of you that it is NBC pursuing this and not the BAA?
I think the point he was trying to make is that other major marathons actually post full race replays on Youtube themselves.
In any event, it's not like Boston is actually selling these broadcasts for subsequent use. They're just stopping other people from enjoying them. What's the point of protecting your copyright if you are just going to let the footage sit on a dusty hard drive somewhere? Heck, if they put them on Youtube, they could at least make a little money on the advertising.
This link currently still works.
I have a feeling these videos will continue to magically pop up on youtube...
thanks for posting the race link.