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[Updated] SSL Finals licensing issues - Page 18
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
I'm late, whatever, want people to see instead of continuing to say the same things as before. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES50749 Posts
alright, for the first time in my life whining bitching and moaning on the forums resulted in something for me. | ||
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Black[CAT]
Malaysia2589 Posts
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dragonsuper
Liechtenstein222 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + A great PIECE OF SHIT Obviously i won't buy HOTS and i'll try to keep ALL the people i know from Buying it. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Black[CAT]
Malaysia2589 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:30 dragonsuper wrote: Good move blizzard , i hope that now this can wake up all the people who hasn't understood yet WHAT blizzard IS NOW. + Show Spoiler + A great PIECE OF SHIT Obviously i won't buy HOTS and i'll try to keep ALL the people i know from Buying it. Unfortunately, the ordinary people/casuals and those who don't read forums much, won't know about this shit and will still give Blizz tons of sale. | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
On November 14 2012 23:03 2Pacalypse- wrote: There's also a problem of BW license fee beeing way too expensive, for someone like Sonic who's funding most of the things from his own pocket. I agree with the guy who mentioned that maybe we could get in contact with Sonic and offer to gather money to pay for his license fee. That would be great. | ||
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Darksoldierr
Hungary2012 Posts
Would be cool if you could stop this blizzard hate train. | ||
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JohnChoi
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masterbreti
Korea (South)2711 Posts
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Bagi
Germany6799 Posts
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Sawamura
Malaysia7602 Posts
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nighcol
298 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:51 Sawamura wrote:Individuals Playing broodwar a 14 year old game on afreeca is copyright infringement ? Yeah, because in most places copyright lasts 70 years after the death of the author(s) (...or forever and a day) and is ridiculously broad in what it covers. No, it doesn't make sense in my opinion but that's the world we live in... | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:51 Sawamura wrote: I wonder how much is this licensing fee thingy is ..... and for what duration does it cover if we pay xxxx of amount ? 3 months ? 6 months ? 1 year ? .Besides that what was Kim Carrier reaction to the cancellation of the finals because of the licensing issue ?. I am also curious if the law suit is really going to be employed against afreeca and if they do on what basis are they suing afreeca for ? Individuals Playing broodwar a 14 year old game on afreeca is copyright infringement ? Companies can claim copyright infringement if you stream their games, yeah. Nobody actually does this, generally. But that's the easiest claim to get things taken down with. Even if the legal waters are muddy, the threat of lawsuit is good enough to get most websites to comply. | ||
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TehRei
Sweden261 Posts
... Me neither. EDIT: If Mike Morhaime lives up to his tweets I'll partially retract the above statement. I still think there's loads of douchebags at Blizz, but in this case it might've only been Blizzard Korea who fucked up big time. Of course sonic isn't completely blameless either, but the fact that Blizzard goes after a small tournament in a relatively small niche is absolutely disgusting, regardless of the circumstances. Even more so when they're stopping the finals of the tournament in question. | ||
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xBillehx
United States1289 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:37 Darksoldierr wrote: Well i always knew Mike is a full geek inside and good to see its showing. As for the whole issue, i think Blizzard's korean department took the rules a bit more strictly or just wanted to be an overall dickhead Would be cool if you could stop this blizzard hate train. Tbh that's probably exactly what it was. Blizzard Korea just abiding by the guidelines set, SSL not contacting them for licensing issues, Mike Morhaime learning about it and reaching out to get it fixed. | ||
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Sawamura
Malaysia7602 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:55 goiflin wrote: Companies can claim copyright infringement if you stream their games, yeah. Nobody actually does this, generally. But that's the easiest claim to get things taken down with. Even if the legal waters are muddy, the threat of lawsuit is good enough to get most websites to comply. Hmm interesting ...how about this ? What if we are the owners of the game and that I mean purchase broodwar original copy and decided to stream it online ? I bought the game for the purpose of enjoying it and also as a legal owner of the game copy that I purchase . Do I have not the right to show my enjoyment to other users ?. Can that also constitute CI ? | ||
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HopLight
Sweden999 Posts
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On November 15 2012 02:00 Sawamura wrote: Hmm interesting ...how about this ? What if we are the owners of the game and that I mean purchase broodwar original copy and decided to stream it online ? I bought the game for the purpose of enjoying it and also as a legal owner of the game copy that I purchase . Do I have not the right to show my enjoyment to other users ?. Can that also constitute CI ? Depends on the country, I'd imagine. In America, at least, yeah. They can stop you from doing it under CI. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On November 15 2012 01:22 Pucca wrote: Optimism my friend  . Like I said HIGHLY unlikely but all I can do is hope. I do hope for the future of Brood War. I just don't hope that Blizzard will do anything for BW, because I know I would just get dissapointed. They're threatening to stop the streaming of Brood War on Afreeca. Have they ever threatened Twitch to stop the streaming of StarCraft 2? StarCraft 2 is making more money from ad revenue than Brood War is, and it's still only Brood War they're going after. In StarCraft 2, you don't have to pay Blizzard anything to run a tournament as long as the prize pool is less than or equal to $5000. But when it comes to Brood War, they're going after the SSL, which, I am quite certain, does not have a prize pool of more than $5000 (lol). Tbh that's probably exactly what it was. Blizzard Korea just abiding by the guidelines set, SSL not contacting them for licensing issues, Mike Morhaime learning about it and reaching out to get it fixed. I hope this is the case. But even if it is, why are the rules so much stricter for Brood War than they are for StarCraft 2? It makes no sense. | ||
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Jaaaaasper
United States10225 Posts
Hrmm if mike comes through i might withdraw that statement. | ||
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