The SEC (Southeastern Conference in college football) is trying to limit blog posts, tweets, audio, and video from games. To do this, they want credentialed journalists to sign an agreement:

The Southeastern Conference is seeking to control how many blog posts or, presumably, even Twitter updates, can be done during a football game as well as control even video from press conferences.

The more restrictive rules disclosed Friday are in the credential agreements journalists covering SEC games must sign for press passes that allow photographers and videographers on the sidelines and writers in the press box.

They even try to cover the audience. With the rise of devices like iPhones, BlackBerries, Pres (and video devices like the Flip), anyone can post updates, send audio, or even stream video.

There are similar provisions in the "fine print" of tickets for those going as spectators, which they might find surprising as they're tweeting, texting, blogging or shooting cell phone video that comes under wary gaze of the SEC rights guardians.

Good luck enforcing that in a stadium that holds 100,000 people. Do they plan to send a few thousand guards into the stands to enforce it?

I understand what they are trying to do, but it's sort of like trying to slap a bandaid on an open carotid artery...

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