Now Flocheer is on the rampage. Saw this on our BSD friend JP Pearson’s feed. They certainly stick to their business model. I wonder if they’re also asserting take down rights to vids they don’t own like they did in wrestling
Tikk - what did you say about Flo and niche sports takeover
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Thanks CT. I reached out on Twitter to see whether he filed a DMCA counternotification but I expect he won't know what I'm talking about.
PE investors might be the devil in human form
Flo must have more lawyers than Cornell's wrestling team 
Apologies if this is posted elsewhere, but Flo also recently sued to prevent the VAC duals (youth and MS) from being recorded and streamed by Track. I don’t know all of the details, but from those I do it’s abundantly clear that Flo has no problem cannibalizing the niche sports it covers if it will prevent competition.
Yep. It's really genius. Find a niche sport with a dedicated fanbase that will not support robust competition. Offer chump change to event sponsors starved for money, in exchange for exclusive online broadcast rights. Lock up rights. Hold dedicated fanbase hostage by inflexible pricing models that force purchases of unwanted bundled content at inflated prices.
Season to taste with IP litigation threats, and a dash of crappy digital infrastructure.
Rinse. Repeat.
Sounds procompetitive to me?
It's not so much that they're the devil, it's that they actually believe that shit they teach in business schools about how the value of an enterprise is solely derivative from its management.
I'm a founding member of the Virginia Challenge, and while I don't know all the details either, I know the VAC wanted out of the contract (which was one of those long term ones) and as I'm told, Flo wouldn't let them - not sure a buyout was even allowed/offered. Contract was for streaming (not for software), so they ran it on Track, like they have pretty much for the last 5-6 years and had to eat it for a year.
