06-25-2015, 08:07 AM
I consider myself a member of all three boards and a paying member of the Bootleg and Cardinal Report. If I've learned anything in the last 15 or so years, it's that college sports, Stanford sports, news cannot be contained. My stance is that premium (paying members) get the privilege of reading breaking news first and --perhaps-- in more detail, but it's unrealistic to think those members "own" news first released on a paying site. I suppose, in some instances, the rules of copyright could concern the owner/operators of those sites, but in practical terms those concerns might not be worth much. If Andy Drukarev gets a great story on some new recruit and claims copyright on it, how can he claim copyright on the fact of , say, a commitment although the actual body of the story is protected? In practical terms, he can't. Same with the Bootleg. It's a fool's errand to try. Right about here is where Yvonne might swoop in, but that doesn't change the way things work.
That said, quite apart from the above, I think it is poor form to be instantaneously propagating news from one of the paid boards to here. I tend to use the standard of whether it is available in any of the multitude of alternative channels surrounding college football. Once it's out and running, then an embargo is silly. I note that news I read on our two premiums sites invariably ends up posted here before I ever could, even if I wanted to. There are just faster internet gunslingers in town. For what little it's worth, I think it's poor form for a handfull of Stanford fans to be openly and repetitively recruiting Bootleg members, on the Booty's own boards, to join the other commercial site. Just like -- back in the Pleistocene, it was poor form for Bootleg die-hards to come over to the Cardboard spitting hostility and trying to strangle this internet baby in its crib, so to speak. The way its working out, Cardinal Report has Drukarev, the hardest working man in the Stanford football recruiting biz...but a very small paying corps of posters. The Bootleg has its network coverage advantage, a large membership and is struggling with local coverage. Abetting their own vulnerability to the competition. And we get to sit here with some sort of Paradise, with some of the most fun, articulate posting members. It's just much more fun here with all of y'all. Let's hope we don't **** it up.
That said, quite apart from the above, I think it is poor form to be instantaneously propagating news from one of the paid boards to here. I tend to use the standard of whether it is available in any of the multitude of alternative channels surrounding college football. Once it's out and running, then an embargo is silly. I note that news I read on our two premiums sites invariably ends up posted here before I ever could, even if I wanted to. There are just faster internet gunslingers in town. For what little it's worth, I think it's poor form for a handfull of Stanford fans to be openly and repetitively recruiting Bootleg members, on the Booty's own boards, to join the other commercial site. Just like -- back in the Pleistocene, it was poor form for Bootleg die-hards to come over to the Cardboard spitting hostility and trying to strangle this internet baby in its crib, so to speak. The way its working out, Cardinal Report has Drukarev, the hardest working man in the Stanford football recruiting biz...but a very small paying corps of posters. The Bootleg has its network coverage advantage, a large membership and is struggling with local coverage. Abetting their own vulnerability to the competition. And we get to sit here with some sort of Paradise, with some of the most fun, articulate posting members. It's just much more fun here with all of y'all. Let's hope we don't **** it up.
