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Say it ain't so! - The internet will be a barren, GIF-less void for the Olympics
The internet will be a barren, GIF-less void for the Olympics
It only took McKayla Maroney a few seconds to generate one of the most memorable Olympic highlights of all time. Her vault makes for one beautiful GIF. But don't expect to see many of those during the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee has issued its rules for news agencies covering the upcoming Summer games, and they're calling out all GIF makers.
mashable.com
The people won't stand for this. But media orgs... probably won't want to risk it.




Way to be humorless, Olympics.
This makes me want to make Olympic gifs so bad.
How are they going to prevent people from recording the video and snipping it and making GIF's? That's going to be an amazing level of control. Wow! ;)
DMCA requests for the loss.
I have this image in my head of a billion-page-count printer groaning out more DMCA violation cards. LOL. And yes, that would probably do it, unless the gif was really viral. Viral stuff is really hard to tamp out, especially if it's small.