Comments on: FOM makes Youtube remove Kubica crash videos

By: timo

timo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:20:09 +0000

Nothing but greed, and some corruption.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:32 +0000

It gets worse …

I was reading the following page http://zerofilter.typepad.com/soc/2007_season/index.html and noticed a Youtube clip of an ‘Amateur’ video from Spa showing the Alonso/Hamilton moment after the La Source hairpin on lap 1. I had already watched the race live and thought it would be interesting to see the start from a fan’s point of view. I have been to the British Grand Prix a number of times and always video’d it myself, but never got around to posting clips on youtube.

When I click on the link it tells me the video has been removed due to a copyright claim by the Formula One Management!!

I think we are in dangerous times, when a home made video of an event is removed by the copyright owners on the premise that the event itself is copyrighted and an individuals personal experience of that event can’t be shared with just anyone. It makes me think of places like china where everything is controlled. This is the western world for heavens sake.

I have to say I feel saddened and ashamed to be associated with F1 at the moment.

By: jph2000

jph2000 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:13:23 +0000

I agree with every word about FOM’s attitudes.Their 20th century attitude to the internet is riduculous.Not allowing F1 to be shown on the web means no exposure of F1 to the “Youtube Generation” and a lot of angry F1 fans.Its like a football team refusing to win matches because they don’t like the type of football being used..ITV’s coverage isn’t great,but im relieved F1 is still on free,terrestrial TV.Itv stuck by F1 when it was at its very worst Schumacher dominance.

By: aljuk

aljuk — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:55:03 +0000

I’m furious with FOM. I can’t believe their pathetic petty mindedness. W***ers.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:22:43 +0000

Robert McKay is spot-on with his suggestions. In fact, a sufficiently high-quality service could warrant a small-but-significant subscription price (especially if lower-quality versions or clips were freely available). Moves like this make the “YouTube generation” (as I hear people my age and younger are called) think the FOM is high-handed and snobbish, and therefore much less likely to watch. And of course, the safety message gets missed.

By: M Smith

M Smith — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:48:09 +0000

I totally agree with your opinion on FOM.

I, for one, am pleased that you pointed out that ITV does a rubbish job, but Martin Brundle does a good job.

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:00:13 +0000

Why just the Kubica crash? There’s shedloads of Formula One footage out there, recent and old, on Youtube. I definitely agree that if the FIA/FOM actually bothered to move into the digital age and start offering race downloads (like Moto GP already do) via the web, then this sort of thing could be cut down. And whilst they are at it, a proper archive of old races would stop folk searching for stuff like Mansell vs. Senna 1992 at Monaco.

By: Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:26:06 +0000

as was stated above, clips like these can attract new fans, also fans of every other sport get to share there clips so y not f1 fans too?
also, if half the races were as good as that one then more ppl would bother to watch!

By: milos

milos — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:00:58 +0000

good he hasn’t heard of dailymotion yet

By: F1 Addict

F1 Addict — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:45:42 +0000

I was going to publish the same screenshot on my site. I really think the FIA gets it wrong each time it does something or anything for that matter. Real shame IMHO that fans are deprived of footage.