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Get the game while you're on the go

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 games, you end up needing to be out being, you know, social or something, you can always avail yourself of the latest technology and take the games with you.

Mike Spitalieri over at Laptop Magazine takes a look at five ways to make your football games follow you wherever you go. Unfortunately, only one option is (almost) free, but that's mainly a symptom of a sports league trying to squeeze every last nickel out of fans.

If you need something to keep you occupied between games, be sure to add AOL's FanHouse blog to your RSS feed. Go Bears!

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Grab NFL data as it happens via RSS

get nfl updates via rssWhat 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 feeds. Users can select teams, events, authors to receive news updates as they happen. Don't feel much like reading? NFL has also dropped in a video RSS reader. Select a team, event and a show and you will get instant notification when a video is uploaded.

Signing up is so simple any armchair quarterback can do it. Almost any that is.

Filed under: Video, News, Blogging, Web services

NFL selectively obeys DMCA in copyright dispute


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 founded the Chilling Effects project, posted a clip of the NFL's over-zealous copyright warning from the Super Bowl (an educational use of material that is clearly covered under existing Fair Use statues) upon which the NFL brought down the wrath of Zeus issued a DMCA takedown notice. Seltzer, knowing her rights, replied to YouTube with her fair use claims, and YouTube responded by allowing the video to return. The DMCA prohibits the NFL from filing another notice in that case, but that's exactly what they did. YouTube, possibly not knowing what they'd done given the volume of DMCA issues they're processing, obeyed the now fraudulent takedown notice and Seltzer's video is once again off-line.

Remember what we said the other day about how the copyright claims of individuals were just as important as those of the big corporations? This is a perfect example of the disparity that exists under current law. Just because the NFL would rather not have a former EFF lawyer using them as an example of copyright lunacy gone berzerk, doesn't give them the rights to not play by the rules.

[via Boing Boing]

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