On April 04 2011 04:25 Manatea wrote:
Kespa can't win. anyone who knows Korean law agree this fact. IP right is guaranteed by the international treaty and Korea must follow them. Moreover, Blizzard hired the BEST Korean law firm. Kespa knows it is unlikable to win and they are delaying trials by questioning hundreds of trivial issues. They are also taking advantage of their UNN media power and encouraging false nationalism, especially targeted to general people who don't know about PC games at all.(majority of Korean gamers don't agree with Kespa)
However, it won't change the result. Korean court may biased, but it is too clear that Kespa is violating Blizzard's IP right. Actually Kespa asked government to help them insisting that future of Korean e-sports may collapse but Ministry of Culture and Tourism replyed "Admit Blizzard IP right first, and negotiate with Blizzard" Our government really wanna avoid USA's priority watch list. You guys don't need to worry about goverment and court fairness.
Whether a game broadcast is a synthesized new intellectual property or reproduction of blizzrds ip, is all in the eye of the beholder. there exist no strict criterion for differentiating them, however in legal terms, the former case would make kespa win, the latter case would make blizzard win.
EPT
