Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Sep 2, 2009 in
Angry Minute Yeah, you’ve seen and heard it about a million times:
“This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent is prohibited.”
Yeah, and I’m a 14-foot twonicorn who loves to paint my nails purple starfire and fly under the sea with my good pal Bubbles the mother frakin monkey!!!!!
That’s called sarcasm kids, that’s cause the NFL’s copyright warning is a bunch of bullsheet. BULLLLLLLSHEEEEEEET!
The NFL wants to SCARE people into thinking they own EVERYTHING about the NFL. If the above copyright was entirely true I couldn’t take a picture of an NFL game (on my own camera even) and SHOW you that picture without the NFL’s consent (and I sure couldn’t post that picture on YouTube or Facebook). That makes NO senses, it is MY picture and I took it on MY equipment. Even if I would take a picture of my TV, while an NFL game is on, I’d still need consent?!?! That is retarded! That’s because the NFL is retarteded and they are LIERS!
How about another example? Well, the copyright says “descriptions”. So on Monday when I’m standing at the water cooler I can’t even DESCRIBE how my Washington Redskins opened a barrel of whoop-ass on them pansy ass Dallas Cowboys. No, I’d need consent from the NFL to even DESCRIBE what I saw. That’s like telling a police office, “I’d love to describe the crime to you but I don’t have the copyright from the criminal to describe what happened.”
What bullsheet. Utter bullsheet.
The NFL can suck on my dingle berries because they are LIERS.
You see here in the good US of A we have a thing called FAIR USE. Look it up if you don’t know (see reference).
Another thing is YOU CANNOT COPYRIGTH HISTORY! No one can copyright that the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, no one can copyright that Obama is our president, and no one can copyright that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the current defending NFL Champions. History happened, so it is free game. The NFL is saying they OWN history. I can’t tell someone that my Redskins are 3-time champs??!?! BULLSHEET!!!!
The NFL are bullies! They are purposely deceiving the public. Hell, they are even FORCING their players, staff, and the MEDIA from using Twitter and services like Twitter to report happenings about the NFL! What babies! Are you scared NFL? Are you scared that since your writers suck and your commentators suck (BOOM, Tough Acting Tinactin! Thank FSM John Madden is retiring, I mean I’ll miss jems like “If they want to win the game they will need to score points”) that people will get their NFL information from sources outside the NFL? Well tough titty because IT’S LEGAL! If I wanted to I could watch an NFL game, and then REPRODUCE said NFL game using my WWE action figures (they are action figures, not dolls) and the NFL wouldn’t be able to do jack sheet except cry about it. Wanna sue me NFL? BE MY GUEST! I’ll happily take you to court because the truth is someone needs to stop these lies. LIER LIER FOOTBALL PANTS ON FIRE!!!
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POSTANGER:
I hate the NFL, I really do. But until someone else brings a football league that can compete then the only thing we’ll have is the NFL. But due to the amount of retarded rednecks in this world, the NFL will continue. Because people would rather watch their teams then raise their kids. Because people would rather live through something that THEY ARE IN NO WAY A PART OF instead of getting off their lazy asses and working towards making their life better.
Frak the NFL! But on the ironic side, GO REDSKINS!!!!!
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REFERENCES:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-a.html
http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-the_nfls_copyright_round_two.html
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2007/03/nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedown-battle-could-face-sanctions.ars
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10322904-2.html?part=rss
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2007/08/ftc-complaint-flags-nfl-mlb-studios-for-overstating-copyright-claims.ars
Tags: Angry Minute, Copyright, First Amendment, Football, Free Speech, Lawsuit, NFL, Television
Posted by Masked D-Bag #8 on Aug 26, 2009 in
Angry Minute The summer heat slowly back peddles into the autumn sky. Children scurry back to school as leaves flounder their way to the piles below. The signs of fall are all so beautiful, but one in particular always makes me smile.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!?!
As a man it is LAW that I love Football. I love watching MY Washington Redskins march down the field, delivering touchdowns and aspirations of a playoff birth or even, if the grand FSM will grant, a Superbowl victory!!!
But just because I love something doesn’t mean ANGER doesn’t boil within my soul. There are plenty of reasons the NFL and NCAA piss me off. So let’s hit the LIST OF ANGER to talk about those nuances in the REAL American Past Time (Do they even still play baseball? If so why? That’s a crap sport!).
LIST OF (FOOTBALL) ANGER:
1. Kicking – Lets start with a more controversial subject when it comes to Football; kicking. Kicking is stupid. Kicking is just plain stupid. A man (a real man) wouldn’t “kick” a ball. FRAK THAT! Be a man and drive your team to the TOUCHDOWN we all want. No one wants to see the kicker. No one cares. Football should do away with field goals, punts, and kickoffs! If you’re team is 4th and 28 I guess you better MAN UP and makes that big 28 yard play, or else BAM! Removing kickers would make the game more interesting, and would lead to higher scoring games (people like big numbers). If anything kickers slow down the game and cause teams to lollygag around the field instead of trying to make the big plays. FOOTBALL FANS WANT BIG PLAYS!
2. Endzone Dance – Football executives are a bunch of BABIES! They want Football to be a BUSINESS and not a GAME! So they try to take some of the fun away in the name of “being fair”. Removing the Endzone Dance is one of those things. How DARE they! The Endzone Dance is as American as Apple Pie! Yet those in suits deemed the dance “offensive” and “taunting”. IT’S A GAME! If you can’t TAUNT your opponent WHAT IS THE POINT OF PLAYING!!!! Let the players HAVE FUN! IT’S A GAME!!!!! And you know what? THE FANS WANT THE DANCE! We want to see the Ickey Shuffle! The ONLY reason the dance has come to an end is because Football Executives are changing the game into a business and not a game. You remove the GAME from football you remove WHAT WE LOVE!!!
3. Too Many Players – Now many will argue with me on this, but the truth is that each team has way too many players. Let’s cut down from 11 players on the field to 7! That would make (on offence) 3 linemen, 2 wide receivers, 1 running back, and 1 quarterback. Isn’t that plenty?! Cutting down to 7 would also help make stars, and would put more pressure on the QB (hey, only 3 guys protecting you makes for some interesting situations). But it’s not just these 11 players; I have a problem with 45 of them! That’s the magic number as that is the amount of players a team can have dressed for gameday. 45! COME THE FRAK ON! What pussy team needs 45 players (Detroit)? Give me 10 minutes and I’ll round up 15 guys that will play their hearts out for the LOVE OF THE GAME! These “players” in the “pros” are just a bunch of crybabies who get paid to sit on the bench. Save some cash, fire half your team!!!
4. Play Offense AND Defense – When I think of the GAME of Football I think of those magically years when me and my friends would play a pickup game during recess. And you know what made those moments magical? We played Offense AND Defense! None of this baby crap, none of this only playing HALF the game! Now I’m a fair man, I think SOME positions can be special, but let’s let the TEAM decide that. I say that a team should only be allowed to have 15 players TOTAL! If one of your players gets injured, well guess that Running Back is playing DOUBLE DUTY! Now the “biz” people will decree that this isn’t done due to “safety” reasons. That’s STUPID! Football is a game where men CRASH into other men! Football isn’t meant to be “safe”!!!!
5. NCAA Bowl Games - If I had to pick ONE thing to change about the great game of Football it would be the NCAA Bowl Games. To determine the BEST you must have them PLAYOFF!!! Having someone “vote” on who they “think” is the best is A JOKE! NCAA just wants to milk as much money from their cash cow as possible. And we, the FANS, let them WALK ALL OVER US! It is OUR fault such a faulty system exists in the first place! Now I think Bowl Games could still exist; we can have each DIVISION play off in Bowl Games to see who makes the PLAYOFFS, but without a true Playoff system the NCAA Football season is nothing more then a joke and will continue to be a joke. And that’s why I root from the NFL much more then these spoiled college athletes who should be learning education and not football!
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POSTANGER:
I’m still going to watch my Redskins this season regardless of the anger I spew. Guess that’s exactly what the NFL cares about, so they get their wish. But the NCAA can suck my big toe! I despise college ball as it is truly a horrid system. Sure I’ll say I root for the Buckeyes, but the truth is I could care less who wins or loses as it doesn’t really matter because who they play on the field is superseded by some prolific voting system. Play to win, not play to be voted on!
Stupid NCAA!!!!
Tags: Angry Minute, Football, NCAA, NFL