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Subject: Re: question about the warning about rebroadcasting games

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 16:11:15 07/08/00

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On July 08, 2000 at 18:45:16, Pete R. wrote:

>On July 08, 2000 at 14:59:01, blass uri wrote:
>
>>I copied this warning from the kasparov's site(I only changed their big letters
>>to small letters).
>>
>>"The live rebroadcast of these games is exclusive to kasparovchess.com. this
>>transmission is deemed "time-sensitive information"  and any party
>>rebroadcasting these games while they are in progress will be prosecuted for
>>rights infringement. we appreciate your cooperation in making chess sponsorship
>>a viable enterprise and chess a succesful professional sport!"
>>
>>
>>I understand that they say that posting the games while they are in progress is
>>against the low.
>>
>>I want to know if this warning is right for all the countries.
>>If it is not right for one country someone from that country can rebroadcast the
>>games and maybe I can watch them because I cannot watch them in
>>kasparovchess.com in a convenient way(I need to download first microsoft virtual
>>machine first and after one try that took almost an hour and after it the
>>download failed because I need to do update to windows I gave up).
>>
>>My old computer with old operating system like windows95 is connected to the
>>internet and it may be the reason that I have problems to watch the games but I
>>had not problems to watch games on ICC so it is not only my system fault.
>>
>>Uri
>
>There is nothing wrong with your machine, Kasparovchess simply has a garbage
>interface.  Their playing zone is garbage, everything with java and javascript
>nonsense is garbage.

Wouldn't that be "everything with java and javascript
that comes in the form of applets produces garbage
through my browsers implementation of the JVM" ?

I got garbage as well by I like Java. You can't dismiss a whole
technology because of this. Besides, I thought the Lost Boys-transmission
from Holland was pretty good.

Ralf



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