Every time some stupid organization/corporation logic-impaired entity makes a copyright claim on a YouTube clip that I want to see, resulting in the clip being removed before I get a chance to see it, the organization goes on my No-Buy List (kinda like the TSA's No-Fly List, but with an actual rhyme and reason, and not based on ethnic prejudice). Seriously, this pisses me off. What is the effing POINT? Does MLB have a multi-billion dollar contact with the Cute Sports Clip Network that gives them an incentive to protect such footage? Are they planning a worldwide Blu-Ray release of this clip timed for holiday stocking-stuffing? Assuming they're smart enough to not contemplate that angle (which admittedly is assuming a lot), there doesn't seem to be a real purpose at all, beyond “We own the rights and we don't want you to see it—but please spend a couple hundred bucks a pop to attend one of our games. Given that “steroids” and “scandal” are the words most commonly found near “baseball” in this new century, I'd think that MLB would be grateful and ecstatic that people are associating them with something positive for a change. Oh well. Guess it should come as no surprise that a sport dominated by cheating drug users is also stupid, superlatively greedy, and Grinch-like.
