EPTMBCGame begins negotiations with GomTV - Page 2
| Forum Index > News |
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
| ||
|
Mylin
Sweden177 Posts
On June 03 2010 03:34 Hier wrote: Well, looks like the beginning of the end of the BW scene in Korea as we know it. *sobs uncontrollably* Don't really see why it would gotta wait and see how this develops. | ||
|
Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
| ||
AltaiR_
Korea (South)922 Posts
| ||
|
Mojawi)SoJu
Korea (South)259 Posts
| ||
|
Hier
2391 Posts
On June 03 2010 03:40 Mylin wrote: Don't really see why it would gotta wait and see how this develops. From where I am looking, a future where BW is as big in eSports as it is now is slowly shrinking on the horizon. One only has to consider people's intentions, reasons, motivations, goals, and potential benefits resulting from their actions. MBC simply has no choice at this point. Either shoot itself or eat a very slow acting poison. I sincerely hope I am wrong, though. | ||
|
bearbuddy
3442 Posts
If Blizzard shuts down SC1 scene in Korea, I can potentially see a boycott movement. I'm sure they don't want that. How are the Koreans seeing Blizzard, anyway? | ||
snowdrift
France2061 Posts
On June 03 2010 03:16 Waxangel wrote: CJ have a 25% stake in gretech. While it does make them the single biggest shareholder in Gretech, Korean journalists speculate on exactly how significant it is. Officially, CJ claims they are just an investor in Gretech and have no interest in its actual operations. Well CJ and Gretech are already partners in other ventures, here's something called My Second TV and if you look at the bottom, it's a partnership between CJ and Gretech. That sort of thing speaks to close ties. Now I'm trying to look for the members of Gretech's board of directors, but maybe you could look for them in Korean? Boardu of direcotoru? | ||
|
Mylin
Sweden177 Posts
On June 03 2010 03:49 Hier wrote: From where I am looking, a future where BW is as big in eSports as it is now is slowly shrinking on the horizon. One only has to consider people's intentions, reasons, motivations, goals, and potential benefits resulting from their actions. MBC simply has no choice at this point. Either shoot itself or eat a very slow acting poison. I sincerely hope I am wrong, though. I think as long as theres a high demand for continued starleagues/proleague in South Korea then it will live on. If anything kills BW its most likely to many fans switching to SC2. Gotta remember aswell that from Gremtech/GOMTVs perspective they'll probably rather see OGN/MBC continue with BW. The starleagues/proleague being played on SC2 would probably hurt their own tournaments more then anything else could. | ||
|
TelecoM
United States10834 Posts
| ||
|
dukethegold
Canada5645 Posts
| ||
|
setzer
United States3284 Posts
| ||
Waxangel
United States33681 Posts
 | ||
Live2Win
United States6657 Posts
I honestly think if KeSPA had all the progaming teams backing them, they could potentially just continue with the Proleague and Blizzard wouldn't be able to do much about it. | ||
|
Uncle Leo
60 Posts
| ||
motbob
United States12546 Posts
| ||
|
Waxangel
United States33681 Posts
On June 03 2010 04:44 Live2Win wrote: I have a questions. Theoretically, what if MBC/OGN decided to say "fuck it" to Blizzard and just kept broadcasting games under KeSPA? I mean what right does Blizzard have to come in 10 years after this thing has started to say "this is ours and we have the right to control its broadcasting rights". Eventually they'd have to go to court but where, US court or Korean court? I honestly think if KeSPA had all the progaming teams backing them, they could potentially just continue with the Proleague and Blizzard wouldn't be able to do much about it. I've been wondering about something like this. KeSPA's actions so far seem to reveal they have absolutely no confidence in going to court. They act as if they they tried to go ahead and ignore Blizz, Blizz would take them to court and fuck them up. As much as certain TL users like to claim "Korean courts rule for Korean companies," or "American copyright laws don't apply in Korea," everything I'm reading seems to suggest that KeSPA is deathly afraid of going to court. | ||
|
NIJ
1012 Posts
On June 03 2010 05:03 motbob wrote: Well, we don't know if they would win or not. But if MBCGame is negotiating, I think it's pretty clear who they think has the upper hand here legally. Legally? no. upperhand in future blizzard games? yes. | ||
|
NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
On June 03 2010 05:05 Waxangel wrote: I've been wondering about something like this. KeSPA's actions so far seem to reveal they have absolutely no confidence in going to court. They act as if they they tried to go ahead and ignore Blizz, Blizz would take them to court and fuck them up. As much as certain TL users like to claim "Korean courts rule for Korean companies," or "American copyright laws don't apply in Korea," everything I'm reading seems to suggest that KeSPA is deathly afraid of going to court. They would most likely go to a non-biased country's court, in Canada the supreme court is suppose to be 100% COMPLETELY non-biased, meaning if the government screwed me over I could take them to court and potentially win. With a case big as this they would have to make it 100% non biased. | ||
GTR
51685 Posts
| ||
| ||
