After what happened at the Hugo Awards at Chicon 7 yesterday, it turns out I do have something to talk about here, first and foremost that copyrightbots apparently has no sense of fun. Expect backlash. Think, angry hornets level.
First off the bat: Sorry if I linked the wrong address to the Hugo Awards Ustream account; the one I linked was the one given on the official site but turns out to have been incorrect. The correct link is here, but you don't have to bother clicking on that since that link has been shut down for copyright infringement. Right in the middle of the awards. In the middle of a speech by Neil Gaiman, too. Pretty miffy. I'm guessing it was because they may or may not have shown clips of Doctor Who for their Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form category. Meaning, if you were one of the 500-odd entities participating in the ceremony via telepresence, your stream was suddenly and unceremoniously cut off during Neil Himself explaining how Community is somehow basically just a Doctor Who spin-off. At least I think that's what he was getting at. At least we still have the CoverItLive stream and the LiveTweeters, but seriously, what the heck. A brunt of the anger has been directed at Ustream themselves, but they were (officially) just as baffled as everyone else by the sudden shutdown. With American copyright law, it's better to be safe than sorry. And, with the ostensibly legally released clips being ostensibly legally released, there are going to be some pretty sorry network executives.
But, yay-hey-hey Digger. I'm linking it you you again here because you owe it to yourself, and I know that you didn't click on it that first time: http://www.diggercomic.com/
EDIT: Alright, sweet. The official explanation now about that copyrightbot we should be directing our sheer unbridled fury toward. http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/09/03/hugo-awards-an-apology-and-explanation/
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