EPTGomTV to give up exclusive rights to SC:BW - Page 7
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pockie
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I was pretty sure it would be when I saw the title =/ | ||
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joshboy42
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Ghostface_Killa
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It was a clever attempt if you ask me... the only thing more clever was relinquishing the rights to Blizzard, and thus leaving the Korean broadcasts with the strong possibility of having to re-purchase them for a disproportionate sum of money. The Korean Leagues are wearing bifocals whereas GOM has vision. | ||
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GhostLink
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User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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hellbound
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buhhy
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On April 01 2011 05:45 Fyodor wrote: No, courts don't work that way. This will likely be a landmark case for intellectual property rights in Korea so no way in hell will the court proceedings be biased by something so stupid and base. It probably will work like that... A Korean judge is gonna favour Korean companies, whether it is conscious or subconscious choice. Humans are never impartial. This is probably somewhat favourable to BW. | ||
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Nerski
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Nerski
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On April 02 2011 03:44 Nerski wrote: Stays the same, blizzard was always the force behind this whole mess, Does anyone ever research anything before they drop an opinion? Article says it best what started this whole problem...KeSPA wanting to have total control and say over SC:BW in korea with no other influence to their 'power'. " However, KeSPA, the Korean e-Sports Association, put pressure on its players and teams to sit out Season 3, and when almost no players were allowed to participate, Season 4 was cancelled. Various reasons were given for this, but it was thought that KeSPA was not happy about the fact that Blizzard had been a major sponsor of the final season—the first time Blizzard had ever sponsored a StarCraft tournament in Korea—doubling the prize pool and making the tournament more attractive to players." So basically because blizzard decided to help promote esports by doubling tournament prize money...KeSPA got worried about their control and forced players to sit...then from their it spiraled out of control as KeSPA removed blizzard from BW entirely on their end and the IP suits started up. Seems pretty clear cut to me who started this whole 'mess' Is that to say I think blizzard should control things to a point if you even stream your own SC2 blizzard can jump all over you to pay them...no. But if you don't want to tick off someone and start an IP rights battle taking all their logos and anything referring to the producer of the game off your broadcasts is probably not a smart move. Old post link from last year that is very relevant to all of you hating on blizzard so much. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=168895 | ||
Milkis
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On April 02 2011 03:53 Nerski wrote: Does anyone ever research anything before they drop an opinion? Article says it best what started this whole problem...KeSPA wanting to have total control and say over SC:BW in korea with no other influence to their 'power'. " However, KeSPA, the Korean e-Sports Association, put pressure on its players and teams to sit out Season 3, and when almost no players were allowed to participate, Season 4 was cancelled. Various reasons were given for this, but it was thought that KeSPA was not happy about the fact that Blizzard had been a major sponsor of the final season—the first time Blizzard had ever sponsored a StarCraft tournament in Korea—doubling the prize pool and making the tournament more attractive to players." So basically because blizzard decided to help promote esports by doubling tournament prize money...KeSPA got worried about their control and forced players to sit...then from their it spiraled out of control as KeSPA removed blizzard from BW entirely on their end and the IP suits started up. Seems pretty clear cut to me who started this whole 'mess' Is that to say I think blizzard should control things to a point if you even stream your own SC2 blizzard can jump all over you to pay them...no. But if you don't want to tick off someone and start an IP rights battle taking all their logos and anything referring to the producer of the game off your broadcasts is probably not a smart move. Old post link from last year that is very relevant to all of you hating on blizzard so much. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=168895 You do realize how biased that thing you're citing is, right? To be fair, neither party is innocent. This isn't as simple bickering as your typical 5 year old banter to say "X started it" or "Y started it". This is a grey area so don't act as if you know what you're talking about just because you read some thing some random korean netizen in the internet posted without even fact checking. Hell, the article you cited didn't even fact check, not surprising because e-Sports journalism is a joke. | ||
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elementz
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Sixotanaka
Australia191 Posts
On April 02 2011 08:16 Milkis wrote: You do realize how biased that thing you're citing is, right? To be fair, neither party is innocent. This isn't as simple bickering as your typical 5 year old banter to say "X started it" or "Y started it". This is a grey area so don't act as if you know what you're talking about just because you read some thing some random korean netizen in the internet posted without even fact checking. Hell, the article you cited didn't even fact check, not surprising because e-Sports journalism is a joke. I think he was trying to get across that this actually is a grey area, and Blizzard isn't some evil corporation trying to kill everything you hold dear. There definitely are two sides to this. | ||
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ReaperX
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DoubleLariat
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On April 02 2011 02:20 buhhy wrote: It probably will work like that... A Korean judge is gonna favour Korean companies, whether it is conscious or subconscious choice. Humans are never impartial. This is probably somewhat favourable to BW. I don't know about how the whole thing works re: Koreans favouring Koreans, but I can tell you, for a fact, that the whole culture is geared around this. A big part of this mess starting up is from KeSPA trying to keep control, something that is just engrained into Korean culture. I'm actually really surprised at how co-operative that GOM has been with other eSports organizations... it's quite out of character with the Korean mentality. As you say, one would hope that the courts would be free of this - but your faith in the legal system makes me smile a little (I'm in law... I have no more faith in the legal system =P) Another thing to keep in mind is that there is no such thing as a "landmark case" in the Korean legal system (at least in the North American understanding of a "landmark case") as they run on a variant of the continental European legal system which puts little to no emphasis on precedent cases. All the above to say, it will go the way that the law was written. And the law was written by Koreans. So if Blizzard wants to win this thing, they're going to have to make sure that they hire good Korean lawyers and let them do their thing instead of having the American legal team come over and try to direct the case. I'm pretty sure that's the thing that's going to get them in the most hot water. | ||
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riboflavin
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