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  Anonymous Coward, 16 Jul 2008 @ 11:11pm

  
  

  So?

  Dave writes in with an interesting story suggesting that Major League Soccer is potentially violating the DMCA by issuing a takedown of footage for which it does not own the copyright.

  So? Laws are for the little people.

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  Dave, 17 Jul 2008 @ 5:09am

  
  

  The video is back online

  For the record, the video was restored a few days after my initial post.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIE7lmgK2xw
  
  I think MLS realized their mistake and quietly fixed it, hoping the rest of us wouldn't notice. They've been trying to bury the U.S. Open Cup for years, because they don't want the rest of America to find out there's another soccer league (USL) with teams in major cities that might actually be able to compete with MLS on the pitch.

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    MAtt, 17 Jul 2008 @ 5:49am

    
    

    Re: The video is back online

    There may be match-ups which favor the USL, but overall MLS is the stronger league. Still, funny they would feel the need to divert attention away from the USL when they clearly have better venues and a vastly superior marketing machine.
    I just can't figure out why they run a season at odds with all the major soccer leagues of the world and play half the amount of games. We're losing some of our best talent to European soccer.

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  Steve R. (profile), 17 Jul 2008 @ 5:30am

  
  

  Only the Begining

  The way our legal system is evolving, the concept of "due process" is being castrated. If you don't need proof of "infringement" and there is no penalty for instigating false claims, then the floodgates of abuse are wide open.
  
  Furthermore, it appears that companies don't even have to provide proof that they actually own content in order to "lock the content down".

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  jaf, 17 Jul 2008 @ 6:20am

  
  

  it's soccer for goodness sake

  Even if it were on TV that means what, six people in the US would have seen it? It's soccer and nobody cares...

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    Rick, 17 Jul 2008 @ 6:56am

    
    

    Re: it's soccer for goodness sake

    Low blow. That's a yellow card for you buddy.

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    JB, 17 Jul 2008 @ 8:51am

    
    

    Re: it's soccer for goodness sake

    Soccer, or Football as it's referred to outside the US, is the favored sport of the world. More people watch the World Cup than have ever watched American Football or Baseball, let alone any of the US's major broadcasts. Soccer is picking up viewership in the US and I wouldn't doubt that it may become the new national pastime as the number of European and Southern American immigrants grows.
    
    (Disclaimer: I am a white, male, protestant, middle-class American and only have subtle ties to European and American Indian bloodlines.)

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      Anonymous Coward, 17 Jul 2008 @ 11:31am

      
      

      Re: Re: it's soccer for goodness sake

      The only reason it's the favored sport of the world is because it's cheap to play. All you need is a blanket wrapped up with a rope and you've got a ball.
      
      It's lame for people to say it's the world's most popular sport when the only reason is because there isn't any other sport to play.

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  Improbus, 17 Jul 2008 @ 6:43am

  
  

  Wha?

  I didn't know that soccer had "Major League" teams. Isn't soccer a kids game?

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  alternatives, 17 Jul 2008 @ 9:22am

  
  

  URL(s) of illegal take down notices and lawyers who take such cases?

  So - is anyone out in the big bad internet have a collection of claims of incorrect DMCA takedown notices or the lawyers who take such?
  
  I know a gal who wants to put up some content, and I figure the expected DMCA takedown notice would create a Striesand effect. (Hint: involves a rat who runs a game and bad pizza racket)

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  Dustin, 17 Jul 2008 @ 9:39am

  
  

  Why the assumption that they don't own the rights?

  Contrary to the assumption that people are making, Major League Soccer may actually own the video rights for US Open Cup games where its teams are the home team.
  
  In the few instances where an MLS team has provided video streaming coverage of a USOC game, that coverage has been available at the MLS website, while when a USL team has a home game in the USOC, video streams of those games have been available at the USL website.

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  Idi Amin, 17 Jul 2008 @ 1:03pm

  
  

  Blanket wrapped up with a rope? Where are you, some industrialized nation? All you need is the head of one of the opposing players.

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