No More Enhanced UFRs

Thorin seems to be on his period as of late or something. Not only in this instance, but when I posted the highlights of the 1999 game against syracuse he had this comment-

WHY? You obviously have some disease that makes you want to highlight the 2 or 3 games in the last 30 years that WH hasn't already done. Get that checked out.

I see posting highlights of old games as a positive. It lets people relive memories and it educates the younger or average fan who maybe didn't see that game. I try to complete seasons of Michigan Football on YouTube. I put up games WH doesn't have up.

If anything I benefit the MGoYouTubers because I'm saving each individual person by shelling out $18 a DVD or VHS copy of these older games. And I'm not even close to the progress I want in this. I'm not even in knee-deep yet on this project.

It was nice to have for a year and a third of this season. Thanks

Wow, total dick move by Thorin.  I value your enhanced UFR's and didn't mind that you posted the weekly updates to the board one bit.  So what if your threads didn't generate much discussion?  

That said, if you still want to do the enhanced UFRs but are now turned off to posting the updates on the board, just post twitter updates and I'll be the first to follow you!

Well, Thorin/MGoVideo has earned an unsub from youtube and an unfollow from twitter.  Can't stand by and allow pots to call kettles black.

Your time so we have nothing to say about how you use it. Even dickish comments don't have the right to sway you one way or another. About the AD revenue.. Nobody gives a shit. Its a free site.

Thorin-

I don't care if you are a dick or not, please keep posting the every snap videos.

While it's certainly possible you'd be receiving a threatening letter at some point in the future, you have a fairly compelling defense under the "transformative use" doctrine, a niche of the more well known "fair use" exception.  Unless someone thinks they could win an argument that your posting of enhanced UFRs (or Brian's un-enhanced UFR's, for that matter) could substitute for the original work (i.e., the original broadcast of the game), you're in a good defensive position.  Let me put it this way, if I were representing one side or the other in such a suit, I'd much rather have your cards than the copyright owner's.

Thorin is the one MGoUser I would least want to piss off...

Then why draw attention to yourself (and your site [again]) by starting a Thorin is a dick thread? I've obviously pissed off seven or eight people but if I ever stop posting, I can promise that there won't be any grand announcement.

It's amsuing to come to a thread where someone has been called out and then I wonder "Hm I wonder if they will post anything in here". Then I can scroll down and just see all the gray bars with "(Score:-1 Trolling)" and find said person. It's like a built-in filter function on mgoblog

Viewing a UFR in the viewer is an entirely different kind of flying altogether than just watching the every snap video. Thorin loses no money on me watching in the viewer, and in fact gains some.

Upshot: this really looks like a petty cat fight between two people who provide(d) really great and valuable content to the site. Here's to hoping they can reconcile.

Wow. I was going to comment, and then this bitterness volcano erupted all over the thread.



So I'm going to avoid the acrimony and just post my congratulations to the OP anyway. Your product was useful and well-executed. It was unique. And while it may not be worth the time or the personal hassles, it was good while it lasted and you should be proud of it. I hope you won't look back on your efforts with regret.



Move on, learn something from the experience, and do well in your next efforts. And forgive, too.

So here's some pictures of puppies

Also, here's a music video

All I know is that nobody here should even THINK about posting pics of the coaching staff at their tailgate. That territory is mine!

this thread is fucking ridiculous. I don't even know what to say. I . . .

Why is Thorin a mod here? I don't post much, and the first time I tried to blockquote I messed it up. I edited it, fixed a few, then went back to fix the rest and he locked it so I was unable to edit it. Just seemed so childish, but whatever. Now we're losing a very cool UFR feature because he's whiny. 

Got it, thanks. Complaint redcated then.