I don’t know or understand a thing about the tech side of things (a tech-savvy friend forwarded me the link to this site), but I hope that sites of this kind find success and allow more people to regularly provide the kind of entertaining and refreshing approach to pro sports that I found last fall.

http://us.intru...Castr_a206.html

iamshimone – The guidelines that sports leagues claim are overly broad and unenforceable; they are written as if the concept of “fair use” is non-existent

See the STATS/Motorola vs NBA court case case in the Second Circuit for more on what constitutes play-by-play

I’m curious to know if Youcastr has an agreement or a legal loophole but I doubt the NFL is eager to loosen its guidelines.

You are definitely not mistaken but this may not be an issue with the major sporting events rather an issue with the local radio broadcast. The local radio broadcasts have to pay for rights to broadcast a game over the airwaves. Here is what their website says:

“You shall be solely responsible for your User Broadcasts and the consequences of broadcasting them. In connection with User Broadcasts, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize YouCastr to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Broadcasts to enable inclusion and use of the User Broadcasts in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Broadcasts to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Broadcasts in the manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.”

They are basically the napster of sports broadcasts.

It’s unfortunate that the branding is such a cookie-cutter web 2.0 identity (wet floor, “r” ending, “You” prefix, beta tag, sound waves, etc). With all the great adjectives and verbs available in the sports world, it’s a shame the end result is something so expected.

Unless I’m mistaken.

——— Forwarded message ———-
From: bhanu prasad madala
To: bhanu prasad madala
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:55:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: ruby on rails developer
Hi,
This is bhanu and am inrested in your job but am from india and i can work from india as a developer and iam invoved in ruby on rails from an year and a half and been involved in high profile projects such as http://www.youcastr.com and , http://www.frie...ww.wallhogs.com and also http://www.jobmia.com which is still under construction because of my interest in ruby on rails i did develop a product which i cant reveal now and i do work for full time and am interested to work under you and i am going to send you a sample of code and just look after that.

Why would I be trying to promote a Mixed Martial Arts site on techcrunch? That is not the type of audience that my site even is geared towards.

I simply provide this information to the techcrunch guys and the guys at youcastr.com to let them know what kinds of actions their developers are involved with.

Think what you want, but it is not bull.

Where and why do you say I am not a programmer? I am a full-time web developer.

I could send you the full RoR application, but as a web developer myself, I wouldn’t want someone passing my code around. How, other than passing the code along, would you like me to prove that I have the full code?

@BinaryDay,

I did not infer or mean to imply that all developers from India do this sort of thing, because of course they dont. But in this case, the one that the guys at youcastr.com hired did.