of course you don't read it here first

Alright, after some editing, hesitation and delay due to schedule tightness, I finally posted the writing on the devastating news.

Here goes..

There is this guy, named Ken Jennings. As in today, he is the largest winning achiever of television quiz show, in the value of a whopping USD 2,522,700.00. He got it from the television show of Jeopardy!. It was my second favorite PC game back in college. Alright, I'm dorky. Anyway, he won it by making a 75 streak winnings. Wow.

The winning streaks of Jennings of course made Jeopardy! more interesting to watch.

But he lost eventually, on an episode that would be aired on Nov. 30th. However, since Jeopardy! was taped, the knowledge of his loss was already known by the live audience and of course the producers of the show.

Now Jason Kottke (I really love this guy!) is a weblogger, the man behind kottke.org (I really love this site). It is a very great site. First time I was there, I felt a slap on my face for seeing such a great great blog.. Just compare it to mine. Sigh.. By the way, Kottke was tipped by one of the live audiences that Ken Jennings would eventually lost. And he posted it.

He didn't mean to spoil it to everyone, because the posts are tagged with spoiler alert. He just wanted to share the latest information to everyone. And later on, some mainstream media even put the coverage on Jennings' later on lost. Kottke's take on this got sharper and sharper, and eventually he got the audio recording on the moment that Jennings lost.

And you know what.. Sony, as the producer of the show, asked Kottke to take down this audio clip from his blog. And then Kottke put a transription of the question (ain't he great?!). And Sony sued him. Yes, you read it right, Sony the giant industry sued the guy. Jeessh.. Sony said that he was violating the copyright issue by posting the audio clip.

Wow.. Many bloggers thought that Sony was only pissed because Kottke spoiled their secret and they can't sue him because of that. So they try finding other way to sue him. Damn!

After everything, Kottke was thinking of not continuing weblogging. Oh, man.. I hope he was just saying it, because I will never stop reading every character and entity on kottke.org. Kottke, you know we got your back on this, and hopefully that will make a difference.

Of all the take on this matters, I like this one best.