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Google needs to whoop some Oscars.com ass

I can't believe the people who run the Oscars are this stupid :

The Oscars Versus Google - Forbes.com:

If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' aim in forcing YouTube to remove all clips of the Oscars was to somehow reap more money from its ownership of the footage, that would be one thing. But Ric Robertson, head administrator of the Academy, told Variety it was "really not about [protecting that] business opportunity."

The Academy even plans to remove all Oscar clips from its own site to "whet people's appetite for next year's show." I wonder why those Oscar.com clips were allowed online in the first place.

So basically, AMPAS and ABC think that in order to "manage their brand" and encourage people to see their "product" next year, they need to banish all clipped highlights of the show? They think that scarcity of this year's telecast is going to get them more people to sit in front of a couch for four hours next years?

Are they nuts?!

A quarter of a million people have watched just the Farrell, Black and Reilley musical bit I review here. That's not including all the numbers for Ellen Degeneres' opening monologue, Jennifer Hudson's speech, the Dreamgirls performance or Martin Scorcese's win.

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