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...seeing BASE video on YouTube.

I agree. but man, there is nothing we can do about it. if everyone was on this forum, then we could point it out and they could be humiliated for being 'look at me look at me'.

but there is only a few of us on dropzone.com.

Even skydiving movies is iffy. i have 2 films up there, and some kid in South America found one on SDM, and posted it on youtube. its not a All BASE film, but still.

Never thought about that before. Good point.

Most people post BASE videos on skydivingmovies, and that one is used as a frequent source for real-TV style programs (and 'funny/horrible video' websites)

Having seen how those companies work up close, 90% of the time, they dont care who owns what rights.
If they air 100 videos, and they get one laysuit, thats costs them less then actually trying to secure rights for every single video they use.

If you dont want your stuff to end up in the media at some point.
Then just dont post it on the internet...period.

There was a nice canadian couple that videoed a bunch of us that got hurt at the POPS meet 2004, they sold the video to RealTV without ever checking with any of us that were hurt. The wife, who was doing the video, went so far as to zoom in when the ambulance guys were taking us away. Some months later I saw it on TV and it was all fresh in my mind yet again and continued to be aired. I got an attorney to pressure RealTV to pull the plug on the video. I wasn't interested in the money, I just didn't ever want to see it again...the memory was enough.

K

For those of us trapped in an office... sometimes its our only release

ever consider a new job?
seems quite sad to only live vicariously through others...

here here!

yeah man, you got one for me?

gear aint cheap

I'm sure you can find a better one somehow if you try...

wwarped isn't a stranger to total career changes himself. maybe he can give you some tips?

Oh believe me, i am mad sending out resumes... just the market here in jacksonville is stingy, and my daughter is here...

So it is a self imposed entrapment, but i still like to watch base vids on youtube and hope to post some of my own as soon as i get comfy with my new fox

no offense, but dont you get sick of films that are- song/jump/track/pull/jump/track/pull/jump/track/pull/song change/creative title/retard being retarded/jump/flip/pull/credits/carnage/fin?

thats what my films are i guess. but i got sick of it.

well, what do you WANT to do?
that is the most relevant question. it's hard to secure a job that you'd rather not be doing... (those people are the type the bosses worry will spend all day on-line!)

Try Africa...
That's no excuse
I have a 4 yr old daughter and a 12 yr old step daughter but that doesn't keep me from going up the mountain.
Me too, but I keep it a secret and criticize those who do...
Now why did you go and buy a fox?


I have just had a few s...
... I'm ready for a

If you're making a film about BASE you might as well make it about BASE. But yeah, I'm bored of it. Unless I'm in it. Then it's the shit.

Exactly.

well have fun all by yourself then. and somewhere else at that.

It's pretty funnysad how only one person got the point.


The "look at me" attitude, is crap. Next time someone gets busted, and looses $2500 in gear, think about it. Next time someone who shouldn't be jumping goes in and brings heat, think about it. Next time there is a new law passed against base jumping, think about it.

dude, you don't have a clue of who he is or what he's managed...he's not living vicariously through anything or anyone.

got your back EPX...love ya & see ya soon!

k

well for me it is, i do get out once in a while


yeah, i think this is why i need to stop getting all worked up on critical comments on message boards... cause who wants to win the special olympics?

Special olympians?

ok i'll stop right there before it gets out of hand trying to push the boundaries of what is and isn't p.c...

you are correct, I do not know who he is or what he has accomplished

I did read his post where he stated:
how should I have interpretted his post?

I peed in your poool


YEAAAAAAAAH

I disagree with everything you have posted in the above quote.

Here is my response to these situations:
"someone gets busted, and looses $2500 in gear,"
Haha! welcome to the club

"Next time someone who shouldn't be jumping goes in and brings heat,"
Ummm.. well, they should not have been jumping. Am I responsible? I think not. I also think that you screwed up priorities here.

"Next time there is a new law passed against base jumping"
Well, until BASERs unite for the common cause, this will be the likely results. Deal with it or do something about it instead of complaining.
I see it like this:
a. Deal with it = 0
b. Do something about it = 1
c. Complain = -3

Note: I see a lot of "Look at me" on your website.
A website is a website.
Oh, I see that you prefer to push your "look at me" on
myspace "http://www.myspace.com/diablopilot"
What is the difference? Myspace vs Youtube? You are exactly guilty of you are sick and tired of. But of course you post your "here I ams" on Myspace, even posting your income. Granted there is no BASE footage. But a "here I am" is a "here I am" website.
Irony is unbeffiting of your character.
I hope you can afford all people the same freedoms across the board that you have.
take care,
space

Big difference.

I don't represent illegal BASE jumping on my page.

But I wouldn't expect YOU to understand the difference.

That is not what you posted.
This is what you posted

"I am sick and tired of...
...seeing BASE video on YouTube."

Why would you expect ME to not understand the difference?
take care,
space

I have to agree with diablopilot here,

sports that are already legal and do not risk more legislation should be promoted as much as possible, for the good of that sport and its possible 'dark side' counterparts.

BASE is legal.
Diablopilot posts on this thread seem kinda drifting.
At 1st he was sick and tired of BASE videos on Youtube.
Then he change that to "The "look at me" attitude, is crap". And it has further creeped to "Illegal BASE jumping".
What is he trying to say Calvin19?
That posting videos of illegal BASE jumps on Youtube makes him sick and tired?
Wow! Took us 25 posts to sort that out.
We be stylin.
So whatsup Diablopilot?
Did someone post a illegal BASE video of your local perch on Youtube in a "here I am" format and you got busted and lost your 2500$ worth of gear after they went in and got your perch hot?
Or did I miss something?
Take care,
space


take care,
space

Isn't virtually every sport at risk of more legislation? It's the American way, and it seems to have spread to much of the world. Don't more rules always make everything better?


Honestly, I think that most discussions of this are oversimplifications. The simple fact is that we don't live in a vacuum. If everyone here decided that putting videos up on the internet was undesirable, and stopped doing it, videos would still be going up, and there would still be people publicizing themselves.

The real question isn't "what do you want the world to look like?" but rather, "what will you do under the existing circumstances to nudge the world in the direction you'd like?"

problem. that requires a few things...
1) people THINK about what they do
2) people take responsibility for their actions

opponents to the 2nd problem always argue "let's not play the blame game." what they really mean is "I LIKE being a victim!"

remember, it's always someone else's fault. (frequently the big, bad moderator.) <sigh>