Tag: NFL

It's been a cruel, cruel summer without our beloved NFL football, and pre-season games don't really cut it. Fortunately, kickoff is tomorrow (not a moment too soon for the rabid fans around here) and we'll able to get our fill of long punt returns, bone-crunching tackles, and (hopefully) more hilarious MasterCard commercials. If despite your best intentions to stay on the couch and catch all the ...

What do the NFL and RSS have in common besides three letters? Nothing, except for the fact they have just tackled each other into providing as-it-happens news, headlines, and summaries of NFL action. The team behind the NFL website has just made grabbing NFL data both faster and easier. Forget about checking out and scanning NFL.com all day waiting for something to happen, just read it via RSS ...

In yet another example of pushing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to the limits and then pushing it just a little bit more, the NFL has chosen to selectively obey some DMCA clauses while disobeying others. No bonus points for guessing that this saga involves YouTube, which has recently become the expanding mass at center of the DMCA dispute universe. Wendy Seltzer, a former EFF lawyer who ...