Hudl- any officials utilizing it?

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Originally Posted by bossman72

Not sure if this would work or not:

Have one universal email address / login for officials and have it act like a college recruiter, basically. All the schools in a conference share their film with the "officials" login, so all officials can use that login to see their games. You wouldn't get the fancy functionality, but you can at least download the game and mess with it that way. Better than the DVD system we have now.

Would that work?

At the point you provide a public "universal" guest login, they might as well post it to YouTube, because that's exactly where the video will all end up. The purpose of having logins for individual people is to have some verification of who is getting access to your material, even if you aren't too discerning about who all sees it, you at least can know who accessed it. You can also insert digital watermarks that are unique to the user, and possibly other criteria, so that you can track when video ends up on unauthorized sites. You lose that completely if you make a single login public knowledge.
Someone will transcode it, publish the video to a third-party site, and now you've lost what little control you had over your content. Lose control over your content, and you lose control of your revenue stream.
If Hudl sets up an account class for officials, there will be methods to authenticate the official's status with organizations, and there will likely be digital watermarking of content in place, if it isn't already.