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Boards.ie Official Position on Posting Live Sports Streams

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  • 19-09-2011 8:40pm
    #1
    myself69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭


    I know that both the Rugby and Soccer forums allow links to be posted. However there seems to be an issue on the cycling forum. Is there an official position on posting live streams?
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    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    myself69 wrote: »
    I know that both the Rugby and Soccer forums allow links to be posted. However there seems to be an issue on the cycling forum. Is there an official position on posting live streams?


    Did you ask the cycle forum mods?

    Different forums allow different things.


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    Otis Driftwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    IIRC links to streams are allowed as in the soccer,MMA,wrestling etc forums as boards is not hosting them so are covered from a copywrite point of view but as MD said,best check with the local mods to see whats kosher in their book.
    :)


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    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,353 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    No-one has asked us;)

    OP, have anything specific you can point to in the cycling forum on this?

    There's nothing in our charter preventing it, although we will occasionally delete something if we know it's an illegal stream


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    IIRC links to streams are allowed as in the soccer,MMA,wrestling etc forums as boards is not hosting them so are covered from a copywrite point of view but as MD said,best check with the local mods to see whats kosher in their book.
    :)
    If this is the case, why is discussion of where to download TV shows, etc against the Television forum charter?


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    myself69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭myself69


    Beasty wrote: »
    No-one has asked us;)

    OP, have anything specific you can point to in the cycling forum on this?

    There's nothing in our charter preventing it, although we will occasionally delete something if we know it's an illegal stream

    I'm not having a go at the cycling forum. Just wondering the boards.ie position.
    RobFowl wrote: »
    No links to a live feed (allowed?)
    Beasty wrote: »
    No links to any illegal sources are allowed

    Thanks

    Beasty

    A link to a TG4 stream would be a legal stream, but a link to a justin.tv stream would be illegal. However these are posted on the rugby and soccer forums.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    *notes down where illegal streams can be had*

    As boards can be held liable for copyrighted material that should be snipped, sometimes things are snipped to error on the side of caution.
    People can still PM links to each other.


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    jaykay74
    Registered Users Posts: 6,581 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    This discussion has been had before on feedback :

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055506985

    With some direction at the end of it from Devore :

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=59333841&postcount=58


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    Otis Driftwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    If this is the case, why is discussion of where to download TV shows, etc against the Television forum charter?

    This is about streaming live events,not downloading.

    A thin line mayhap but see
    Preemtively we ban Bittorrent links to music and tv and warez out of hand because they are almost always point to illegal files. The links themselves are not illegal (currently).

    from Dev.


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    #10
    Karen23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭Karen23


    Are links to Sky Sports Darts allowed to be requested ??


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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    if it breaches a copyright then the answer is a definite no.

    if it is a legit stream thats free for all, then check with the mods


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    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,251 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Sports streaming spambots are not welcome in American Football. A couple weekends ago we were attacked by several, where almost 40 new threads flooded our forum in a 24 hour period, crowding out all other discussion threads.


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