Fomos content: Stop using it - Page 25

On June 02 2011 08:36 Milkis wrote:
I dont know why people think "losing" Fomos is such a big deal. All you lose is a few featured interviews they do every once in a while. As for the main interviews, we can still use DES and their features.

Given that there's a ton of untranslated korean stuff everywhere i dont see why people think Fomos is such a big deal when there's always a lack of translators to cover everything anyway.

Also Chef: it is easy to say "oh you could just keep negotiating" if you were completely unaware of their attitude towards TeamLiquid. Just read the Fomos official statement and you should get a glimpse of what Fomos thinks of TL.

On June 02 2011 09:06 TanGeng wrote:
Granted Fomos' English site will never be a good competitor in the near future. But if they want this kind of agreement, might as contribute to their continued irrelevance. And if it just a negotiating ploy, then it's not working.

On June 02 2011 10:35 GTR wrote:
fifo was bought out by afreeca in 2008, which these days is now known as dailyesports.

On June 02 2011 09:12 n.DieJokes wrote:
Idk, having read fomos side I think they're being pretty fair. If they already have someone paid to translate its obnoxious to have us translate their stuff. We may be faster but it doesn't do them any good to have it read here; as far as I can tell translated material is the only draw it has to foreign fans. We steal a lot of their usefulness and more over don't they collect these articles and interviews themselves in korean before they're translated, it makes sense that they'd want something back for their original content like maybe our original content. It feels like we're trying to push fomos around :/

On June 02 2011 12:17 nayumi wrote:
is English translation on TL.net copyrighted, i.e can Fomos just outright copypasta our work here?

We hope that Fomos will invest heavily in their global site so that international fans will continue to be able to enjoy their excellent Brood War coverage.

On June 02 2011 12:00 Klogon wrote:


Okay, this is all just purely speculation on my part...

It's easy to see why Fomos thinks they are being fair because they actually think the people they have hired to run the Global site actually uses good English (otherwise, why would they hire them, right?). However, anybody who has a good grasp of the English language can see that that is clearly not the case. Need an example? Look at their statement they released and tell me with a straight face that that was good English. What our volunteers provide have been of far higher quality than what you'd find there (or most of the internet for that matter) from their paid workers. From my perspective, it is hard to imagine why they would not want free-labor (better labor) and free-exposure in the foreign market, but if Fomos did actually think their workers were doing good work, I can totally see why they think we are being unreasonable. If I had to guess, this is where we had to agreed to disagree.

Additionally, although they have ambitions of becoming a competitor to TL.net in BW coverage outside of Korea, TL has no plans to start a Korean-language website so the agreement of same-language article exchanges would not be equal. And that is ignoring the very principle that we would probably reject such a proposal no matter what. But if they thought we might be interested in expanding into their language-market, maybe they saw their proposal as being very fair as well.

On June 02 2011 13:15 Klogon wrote:
Well if that's the case, then good luck! Hopefully there will just be more material for English speakers. I don't mean to be a downer for your motivation - it was just my personal opinion/speculation based on what I saw. But like I said, wish you the best of luck if they are indeed hiring more helping hands.

On June 02 2011 13:25 d_so wrote:


Thanks. And to be clear, TL translators are like 50x better than me always will be. Also, I'm not really "hired" so please, TeamLiquiders, don't mistake my goal as getting compensation for relatively subpar work. I just need the exp.

On June 02 2011 13:28 Milkis wrote:


Why dont you do it here then, where you'll be more appreciated and people can provide you feedback directly? =/

On June 02 2011 13:28 Milkis wrote:


Why dont you do it here then, where you'll be more appreciated and people can provide you feedback directly? =/