Obviously he never played SC2 professionally on a team, note the "had to intention to switch to SC2". Did you even read the whole article?
He was in the GSL qualifiers... you know the big one for sc2?
On January 29 2011 11:44 nalgene wrote: that's cuz stimedpylon heard some lies from other ppl that seemed too horrible to be true...but went with them anyways...
A lot of people will believe anything... even going as far as to believe the claims made by TL's brigade of self proclaimed law students.
Lol it's clear that the judge only cares about IP right but Blizz put a ton of "weird" stuffs into the matter that are not IP right related at all.
At this rate I can see the result already, Blizz will get the money for IP right but they will have no control over tournaments, players and cannot apply any "weird" condition to MBC/OGN/Kespa.
this just shows how shitty of a company Blizz/Acti are. Valve never demanded anything for 10 years of pro CS 1.6. When source came out, despite the big 1.6vs source talk, the tourneys went parallel. for years. and valve didnt act on anything.
btw: cs has lan. and it prob made more sales money than sc2.
On January 29 2011 12:10 kamikami wrote: Lol it's clear that the judge only cares about IP right but Blizz put a ton of "weird" stuffs into the matter that are not IP right related at all.
At this rate I can see the result already, Blizz will get the money for IP right but they will have no control over tournaments, players and cannot apply any "weird" condition to MBC/OGN/Kespa.
i kinda disagree here. blizz ip quest goes over transmission of bw over the last years. if they get away with it its because they have rights over the transmissions. if they have rights over the transmission u either a) give them control of the tours (or wtv weird conditions they come with). b) livestream and make 0 profit out of it
On January 29 2011 12:10 kamikami wrote: Lol it's clear that the judge only cares about IP right but Blizz put a ton of "weird" stuffs into the matter that are not IP right related at all.
At this rate I can see the result already, Blizz will get the money for IP right but they will have no control over tournaments, players and cannot apply any "weird" condition to MBC/OGN/Kespa.
i kinda disagree here. blizz ip quest goes over transmission of bw over the last years. if they get away with it its because they have rights over the transmissions. if they have rights over the transmission u either a) give them control of the tours (or wtv weird conditions they come with). b) livestream and make 0 profit out of it
No they won't get away with it, that's why they will "only" have the money and nothing more.
wow pretty interesting and intense. i wonder what the judge is thinking about these guys squabbling over who has the right to play a video game. then again it is in korea.
Poor Milkis getting critiqued about his abilties as translator, I'd go as far as to say scion was insulting his intelligence - Milkis even wrote a guide to translating citing the differences between sources and what to look out for.
Zona put it very well too, after 9 pages of discussion there is no doubt in my mind that there was foul play intended here.
On January 29 2011 12:49 waxypants wrote: Damages my ass....without these TV stations broadcasting the game "illegally", the StarCraft name would be nothing today. No GSL either.
Blizz only started getting involved after KeSPA started selling the broadcasting rights to these stations. That's when it became illegal. Also, seeing as 80% of the SC1 and BW sales were made before 2001, OGN/MBCGame have little to do with it's popularity outside Korea since e-sports is a very small and niche market. You also forgot the countless illegal servers for BW that are still up and running in and outside Korea.
Blizz should have this in the bag as far as law is concerned.
On January 29 2011 12:49 waxypants wrote: Damages my ass....without these TV stations broadcasting the game "illegally", the StarCraft name would be nothing today. No GSL either.
Blizz only started getting involved after KeSPA started selling the broadcasting rights to these stations. That's when it became illegal. Also, seeing as 80% of the SC1 and BW sales were made before 2001, OGN/MBCGame have little to do with it's popularity outside Korea since e-sports is a very small and niche market. You also forgot the countless illegal servers for BW that are still up and running in and outside Korea.
Blizz should have this in the bag as far as law is concerned.
On January 29 2011 12:49 waxypants wrote: Damages my ass....without these TV stations broadcasting the game "illegally", the StarCraft name would be nothing today. No GSL either.
Blizz only started getting involved after KeSPA started selling the broadcasting rights to these stations. That's when it became illegal. Also, seeing as 80% of the SC1 and BW sales were made before 2001, OGN/MBCGame have little to do with it's popularity outside Korea since e-sports is a very small and niche market. You also forgot the countless illegal servers for BW that are still up and running in and outside Korea.
Blizz should have this in the bag as far as law is concerned.
lol ok since you complained that people are not talking about your ridiculous arguments i'll bite.
Not one of your arguments even makes sense
Blizz only started getting involved after KeSPA started selling the broadcasting rights to these stations. That's when it became illegal.
Right, so this justifies blizzard sueing MBC because? Unless i am grossly misinformed MBC wasn't selling the broadcast rights to itself. If this is Blizzards reasoning, they would be sueing Kespa, and has no bearing on the current court case.
Also, seeing as 80% of the SC1 and BW sales were made before 2001, OGN/MBCGame have little to do with it's popularity outside Korea since e-sports is a very small and niche market.
Yes given almost half the copies of bw sold ever were in korea, clearly the foreigner market is the only one that matters right?
You also forgot the countless illegal servers for BW that are still up and running in and outside Korea.
Yes, and this is, again, relevant to the case against MBC how? MBC isn't running these servers, let alone profiting off them.
You also forgot about the Somali Pirates who hijack ships, who are equally irrelevant to the current case. Or any number of people in the world involved in illegal activity who are likewise not relevant to the case at hand.
Excellent counter argument there. Counting post counts instead of facts? Is this the 5rd grade?
I thought the fact that you've ignored the counterevidence for your conspiracy theories was funny as well.
Almost as funny as the fact that there seems to be more foreigners supporting KeSPA than there are Koreans. After all the retarded shit KeSPA pulled all these years, they get no second guess chances from me. Kind of sad to see the last years of BW full of soo much pointless conflict and cock waving on both sides.
part of the money they gained from SC1 goes towards funding for WoW ( Level 60 Cap version ) before it was released ( it's only 5% of their total income post WoW release though... ) and that movie for funding the creation of another game certainly helps...
money back then is worth more than money now ( inflation/usury/"quantitative easing" aka printing more money will make it worth less )