How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards
Annalee Newitz ,
io9,
Sept 04, 2012
In one of the week's weirder events, robot copyright police took down a lice webcast of the science fiction world's most prestigious awards ceremony, the Hugo Awards. The event was being streamed through UStream, which interrupted the broadcast part way through, apparently because some film clips (the Hugos have a video category) were shown. Never mind that the owners had submitted these clips themselves, or that the Hugos had permission to stream them, or that such use falls clearly within the domain of fair use. No - the UStream feed went down and stayed down; no number of appears could bring it back. We will rue the day, I think, that we turned our culture and social environment over to robot justice.
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