@Joe - Respect to AEG for doing that.
@ Kinnell - I agree with your comments about BBC's lack of global exposure. Honestly, by the time Boston Bhangra Competition aires their events through their media partnership and releases their DVD, nobody even cares about them. We're like more than half way into the next bhangra season and BBC is still playing "catch up."
"It's up to the team whether they want recognition for their ideas/hard-work. If a team never posts their video, they're at a bigger loss than we are." That's a key point and I fully agree!
The reason that I mentioned teams changing up choreography was because some teams might not want their performances released due to having another competition soon. I feel that 2+ months is enough time for every team to change things up slightly (if they want to), so they should have no real reason to restrict their videos from being posted. Also, just because people have seen your performance through a video doesn't mean they'll feel less hyped up when they see you execute it live.
Instead of the FTP trick mentioned earlier, I figured that I could throw all the bhangra videos that I want to on a public torrent tracker and let the competition deal with trying to take them down (anyone remember the authorities trying to take down piratebay? lol. It's still kicking strong). Now a bhangra competition fighting a torrent website over "copyrighted material" is something that I would love to see!
On to the last point.. times haven't really changed that much Kinnell bhai. It's not like we're taking about 10+ years back.. it was only in about 2006 when youtube was getting really big in terms of bhangra videos. I don't recall a ton of "powerhouse" teams like the ones I mentioned ever requesting their video to be NOT posted. Heck, flash forward to the circuit NOW.. do you ever see SGPD ask people on BTF to take down their videos? And yet, they come to every competition with something new & exciting in store for the audience.
It's sad when a lot of known teams are scared of the BTF crowd and hearing any sort of critism.
@ Faizan - With BTF not actually hosting the videos, I can't see where they are at fault. You could argue the same thing about Google "hosting" copyrighted material because you can go on there to search for copyrighted material. Plus, don't you agree to a bunch of terms & conditions when you sign up for an account here? That probably takes some liability off BTF. Anyway, that's a whole other topic.. I agree with your points about BBC.
@ Swi - The DVD model is just plain stupid. First of all, DVD's are getting outdated (1080p anyone?). Imho, BBC is dumb for not taking advantage of online media to promote their name. As you mentioned, who really buys the DVD anyhow? Especially when they release it several months after the competition (when nobody really cares about BBC anymore). They need to talk with their sponsor about getting content out there faster, distributing the content online digitially (with their sponsor's name on it of course), and also selling "planning the event/preparing/team mixer/behind the scenes at the competition/team interviews/etc" in high quality as bonus footage (as you mentioned). Having a "supportive partner" year after year should give you more flexibility when negotiating on terms of a partnership agreement/contract.
"The competition itself is most important, everyone who didn't buy a ticket and see the show is secondary." That's the wrong mindset to have if you want your competition to get national and possibly international exposure. If BBC is only concerned about being an East Cost bhangra competition, than sure keep doing what you're doing, but if they want to "progress" as a competition (which they should be ready for now considering how long they've been around)... then draw ideas from competitions such as Bhangra Idols & Elite 8.
~ Basim
P.S. - If this discussion continues maybe spilting off into a seperate thread would be beneficial.
