Links to illegal streams prohibited on A Sea of Blue

by Glenn Logan on Jan 19, 2012 8:02 PM EST

Folks, guidance has just come down from above that links to illegal streaming sites are no longer allowed on SB Nation communities.

As a result, the Community Guidelines have been updated to reflect this policy Please note that this action is necessary to prevent legal liability for A Sea of Blue and SB Nation sites. Let's all please observe this requirement.

Note that I am not trying to say you can't watch a game at such sites, I have no desire to police the Internet, nor tell you what you can and cannot watch. But we cannot allow links to illegal streaming sites on A Sea of Blue anywhere, even in the comments.

Thanks for your cooperation and understanding, it is always appreciated.

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I assume that asking people to email each other about game locations and broadcasts

on here does not violate that?? Or are we concerned that an act of that type might lead to other problems?

I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!

by Greg Alan Edwards on Jan 19, 2012 8:07 PM EST reply actions

I can't legitimately control something like that.

Nor would I try. But I cannot give out emails myself, that’s forbidden by our privacy policy.

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by Glenn Logan on Jan 19, 2012 10:02 PM EST up reply actions

I know you are between a rock and a hard place here, Glenn

whatever you have to do to stay on the right side of the powers that be is fine by me….

I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!

by Greg Alan Edwards on Jan 19, 2012 10:11 PM EST up reply actions

The powers that be. '-)

A true displeasure for me not to be able to help my Blue family living elsewhere in need of catching the game. Yes, it is a real need. ;-)

I do understand though.
Notice: I want to help you peeps wherever you may be and since I no longer can, please don’t ask me. ’-)

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by a2d2 on Jan 19, 2012 8:11 PM EST reply actions

Can you link to another site that

has the illegal link?

Making waves in a sea of blue.

by kywineman on Jan 19, 2012 9:26 PM EST reply actions

Or one that MIGHT have a link. :-)

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by a2d2 on Jan 19, 2012 9:36 PM EST up reply actions

Oops, should be a question too.

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by a2d2 on Jan 19, 2012 9:41 PM EST up reply actions

Good question.

I really don’t know. Our policy, insofar as I can determine, applies to links directly to sites with illegal streams.

Third-party linking is not really a violation of the letter of the policy, but it would seem to be problematic with respect to the spirit of it.

But I’m not sure how I can, or should, enforce something that isn’t clearly our policy, unless I receive further guidance — which I have requested. Until I receive it, I will be enforcing only the policy as written.

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by Glenn Logan on Jan 19, 2012 10:06 PM EST up reply actions

Those sites

are a Godsend to guys like me living here in the Philippines. I cant even access ESPN3. I never noticed a link on here, to be honest.

God Bless Our Troops............Especially Our Snipers!

by bigbill992001 on Jan 21, 2012 1:32 AM EST up reply actions

I've never seen one of those links on here either (I wouldn't recognize one if it popped me in the keester) but

I would watch this team with Philippine announcers (or any other language) … it would be funny for a while and then I would turn the sound down …. people sometimes don’t realize it’s an addiction

by ukcris on Jan 21, 2012 8:23 AM EST up reply actions

I understand.

I totally sympathize. The fact remains that they violate US copyright law.

Trust me when I tell you I don’t like it when people violate my copyrights, and they do. They get C & D letters from our lawyers when that happens, and it happens more than you would think.

I’d be the fist to agree that US copyright law is badly broken, and breaking them more by imputing guilt to the innocent, like SOPA and PIPA would do, is not the answer. I understand the motivations of the interests pushing these laws are mostly directed offshore to infringers in foreign lands like China, but unintended consequences have done more to damage U.S. jurisprudence than anything else in history. For an example, you need only look at the prosecutorial abuse of the RICO statute.

But we have to protect ourselves, and if it makes it in any way harder for you, I am sorry.

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by Glenn Logan on Jan 21, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions