Rob Moody is an Australian cricket fan who records cricket matches broadcast there from all over the world, and has uploaded nearly 3,000 videos across his two channels (named "robelinda" and "robelinda2") on YouTube: his channel has been going for several years and gained huge viewership and appreciation in the online cricketing community, and has been mentioned several times in media publications around the world, including The Guardian newspaper in the UK and the world's most popular cricket website ESPNcricinfo. Nearly all of these come from live television coverage, which is not available commercially and thus unlikely to cause serious revenue damage to the national cricket boards should the relatively small proportion of all cricket shown in Australia that he uploads be kept there - he also avoid uploading recent footage whilst it is still likely to be used in commercial broadcasts or highlights packages on TV.

However, Copyright Integrity International - a copyright enforcement company who administer copyright law for the national cricket boards who own the broadcast footage - has recently issued copyright strikes against several of Rob's videos and warned him that closure of his channels is imminent. Whilst we do not condone attempts to abuse copyright law for obvious individual commerical benefit - as some YouTube channels blatantly do - Rob makes no profit from his videos whatsoever and is not costing world cricket anything by uploading these videos, and has indeed publically expressed his desire to avoid uploading anything from more comercially lucrative events such as the IPL. As such, the cricketing community urges the national cricket boards, the International Council and CII to reconsider taking action against these videos and remove any immediate threat to the existence of his channels, since to close such a popular channel in the cricketing community - which also has the support of former international cricketers, including Australian leg-spinner Stuart MacGill and middle-order batsman Damien Martyn, plus prominent cricketing journalists such as the Australian Jarrod Kimber - would be uneccessarily draconian and cause huge outrage among cricketing supporters. Such a move would also show these cricket boards would show them to be heavily out of touch - and more interested in commercial gains than allowing cricket fans to develop their interest in the sport, and thus less likely that we support them in the future with our own cash - with those supporters who want to revisit old memorable cricket moments that reaffirm their love for the game and actually more likely to support it, and thus contribute more to - and not simply swipe cash from - the board's already swelling coffers.

He may not be a great opening batsman or fast bowler, but he brings those who did great things in "the good 'ol days" back to us: he's a crucial member of the cricketing community and to remove him would be ruthless and unneccessary.