So. Right now Sverige (Sweden) is holding it's Melodifestivalen song contest to determine who we are sending to Eurovision 2008.
Each week after the broadcast, the videos are being uploaded to YouTube so the world can see who won that round and will be competing at the Globen in Stockholm for that coveted Eurovision spot.
Well, Apparently now all of sudden today (3 weeks into the contest) SVT (Sverige Television) is getting all uppity and has made YouTube pull all the videos of Bodies Without Organs performance from Round 3.... I have no idea if this will stop with just this one act, or if all videos from Melodifestivalen will be pulled systematically.
But this is bullshit.
If SVT isn't going to upload the videos of the acts themselves, then why the hell can't other people do it? The show has already aired. It isn't like they will lose viewers. On the contrary, it will get viewers interested in watching the next round and the final!
So just what are they thinking by pulling BWO's videos? Seems like a snakey snarky crappy and idiotic thing to do. I'm irked as hell... and I may not continue watching the weekly contest , or giving them my money to vote for my favorite act.
I mean geeze... this is the kind of shit people & companies in the USA do. I thought I was in Sweden... a sane country...
I'm beginning to think I was wrong.
Shame on you SVT. What a very American move you just made...
Each week after the broadcast, the videos are being uploaded to YouTube so the world can see who won that round and will be competing at the Globen in Stockholm for that coveted Eurovision spot.
Well, Apparently now all of sudden today (3 weeks into the contest) SVT (Sverige Television) is getting all uppity and has made YouTube pull all the videos of Bodies Without Organs performance from Round 3.... I have no idea if this will stop with just this one act, or if all videos from Melodifestivalen will be pulled systematically.
But this is bullshit.
If SVT isn't going to upload the videos of the acts themselves, then why the hell can't other people do it? The show has already aired. It isn't like they will lose viewers. On the contrary, it will get viewers interested in watching the next round and the final!
So just what are they thinking by pulling BWO's videos? Seems like a snakey snarky crappy and idiotic thing to do. I'm irked as hell... and I may not continue watching the weekly contest , or giving them my money to vote for my favorite act.
I mean geeze... this is the kind of shit people & companies in the USA do. I thought I was in Sweden... a sane country...
I'm beginning to think I was wrong.
Shame on you SVT. What a very American move you just made...