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Has anybody noticed that you can find hardly any racing videos on Youtube that were there a few months ago? For example – Kauto Star, there are only 3 pages of clips when you type in Kauto Star, and none of them are highlights of actual races.
It seems due to copyright issues that nearly everything has been removed, which is extremely disappointing, as I would always watch random races on Youtube when I was bored. They have even removed the vast majority of videos of my beloved Ouija Board.
Can anyone shed any light on why this has happened?
I think a load of sports stuff got removed due to copyright issues. They’ve recently removed loads of music vids too which will be the death knell for them.
no so much a library issue as live broadcast, but there was an interesting piece this week from Murray Bell in the scmp:
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In Australia, the race club-owned telecaster TVN makes its raceday broadcasts available to the public through Bigpond.com and that worked well for all of us Asian-based racing junkies until it was mysteriously cut off some three weeks ago. Now the software picks up that you’re attempting to enter via a foreign internet provider and disallows connection.
Officials from Sydney tell us they are protecting their agreements with the Hong Kong Jockey Club, while the HKJC bosses tell us they would prefer easy access to the broadcasts and have done nothing to assert their so-called contractual rights.
While the "good guys" play games among themselves, the illegals are getting on with pirating the signal and disseminating it anyway. There are now websites in the US and China that offer the Australian racing signal to members, and the Chinese sites – set up by illegal bookmakers – are also picking up other racing from around the region.
So while the race clubs, betting agencies and their subsidiary telecasters talk about a 24-hour racing channel and their much-vaunted product rights, opposition has sprung out of nowhere, feeding the Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Malaysian racing signals out to the mainlanders, complete with voice-over in Putonghua.
Not only can members view the racing on these illegal sites, they can bet on it too, using a betting exchange model. And from every dollar bet into this medium, the racing industry pockets . . . not a cent.
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