• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 13:27
CEST 19:27
KST 02:27
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Serral wins HomeStory Cup 2914Serral wins Maestros of the Game 243ByuL, and the Limitations of Standard Play3Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12
Community News
ZeroSpace Early Access is Now Live!8Weekly Cups (July 13-19): Terran & Protoss rise; Zerg falters2Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16)73Reynor: GSL Loss Wasn't About Preparation Format16[IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend!18
StarCraft 2
General
Balance hotfix patch 5.0.16b (July 16) Weekly Cups (July 13-19): Terran & Protoss rise; Zerg falters How would you feel about frequent/monthly balance patches for SC2? Clem: "I don't have that much hope in Blizzard" [D] Wireframe Casting Removed
Tourneys
RSL Revival: Season 6 - Qualifiers and Main Event Master Swan Open (Global Bronze-Master 2) WardiTV Summer Cup 2026 GSL CK #5 Race War HomeStory Cup 29
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
New Map Maker - Looking for Advice - Love or Hate Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
Mutation # 535 Assembly of Vengeance The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 534 Burning Evacuation Mutation # 533 Die Together
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion HORROR STARCRAFT MOVIE BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ How Famous was FlaSh before his Debut? screpdb: new Starcraft reporting tool
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [IPSL] Spring 2026 Grand Finals - This Weekend! Escore Tournament - Season 3 Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers PvT advise for noobs Fighting Spirit mining rates Creating a full chart of Zerg builds
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile ZeroSpace Early Access is Now Live! ZeroSpace at Steam NextFest - Last free demo Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Power Rank NeO.D_StephenKing vs This Guy From 1 Million Dance TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread How to buy a book - shipping from Korea to Europe The Games Industry And ATVI UK Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club The HerO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books Series you have seen recently...
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023 McBoner: A hockey love story
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread Simple Questions Simple Answers FPS when play League Of Legend on laptop
TL Community
Northern Ireland Global Starcraft The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Hello guys!
LIN1s
Role of Gaming on Mental Hea…
TrAiDoS
ASL S22 English Commentary…
namkraft
Poker (part 2)
Nebuchad
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 3436 users

Did KeSPA cancel TLO vs Nada at IEM? - Page 8

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 6 7 8 9 10 28 Next All
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
August 21 2010 12:19 GMT
#141
On August 21 2010 21:17 Keap wrote:
Seriously why not just shut down the illegal stream and sue whoever was doing it later?

Easier said than done. Also not sure why mimikami's post warrented a temp, his statements are crude, but he has a point.
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
Lennon
Profile Joined February 2010
United Kingdom2275 Posts
August 21 2010 12:20 GMT
#142
On August 21 2010 21:09 mimikami wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 20:05 IamAnton wrote:
Blizzard never cared about E-sports which is clearly evident from there 0 support of anything non Blizzard-Sanctioned. thank god this useless organization is quickly getting flushed down the toilet.


I must disagree with you here, why the hell must Kespa care for Sc2 ? It's not even an e-sport !!! (It may become an e-sport in the future but now it's just a mere video game).

Their name is the Korean E-sport Association, which means, they must only care for :

1> Korean (and not foreigner tournaments, events, or anything)
2> E-sport (which is now BW, and not SC2)

They care for the real current e-sport, which is BW, and that is good enough.
Unlike some big fat video game corporation which has plans to destroy the real e-sport, BW.

For the move they made : if I was Kespa I will do the same : it is well within my right to do that and it does not affect my business, which is "Korean E-sport (BW)", and it will strike a blow to my enemy.




User was temp banned for this post.


No, SC2 is an eSport.
Wake up.
rasnj
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1959 Posts
August 21 2010 12:20 GMT
#143
On August 21 2010 21:02 maJes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 20:58 GTR wrote:
On August 21 2010 20:55 Plexa wrote:
On August 21 2010 20:54 maJes wrote:
Personally I think it's a fairly simple matter.

KeSPA don't have rights to broadcast SC2 in S.Korea right now.

A KeSPA licensed player is participating in a showmatch, which is being broadcasted in S.Korea.

Who's going to get in trouble if it continues? Obviously KeSPA.

It sucks that the match had to be cancelled but the only person in the wrong here is the guy who streamed it in S.Korea, and caused the chain of events to occur.

This sounds pretty plausible.. After all KeSPA agreed to NaDa playing in the show match originally.


Why didn't KeSPA do the logical action and order afreeca or whatever to shut down the person streaming the stream? It would have been less of a hassle and we wouldn't have all of this drama.


I'd assume because the burden of enforcing the rules for the showmatch is on the organisers, in this case ESL, rather than on KeSPA. I don't really understand why KeSPA should have to monitor an ESL event to make sure their asses are covered on the licensing front.

If Korean law is anything like European or American law, then it can't possibly be KeSPA's responsibility that an unlicensed third-party re-streams one of their progamer's games. The only one violating licensing is the re-streamer who obviously did not obtain a license from ESL to stream via Afreeca. Since Kespa doesn't have a license they can't themselves broadcast, but that does not mean they actively have to stop others from broadcasting.
TechniQ.UK
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United Kingdom391 Posts
August 21 2010 12:21 GMT
#144
You know im not even joking about this but bw players in kor should make a trade union so they're able to improve their conditions, rights and salaries and collectively refuse to play if kespa starts its nonsense with them. A system where the company in this case kespa has all the influence, leverage and control is never going to be good for players.


Fan of: Acer.Scarlett and Liquid'NonY //
Teddyman
Profile Joined October 2008
Finland362 Posts
August 21 2010 12:21 GMT
#145
I guess all the people defending KeSPA wouldn't mind if ESL just cancelled the tournament since Tump and sc2.tv illegally restreamed their stream. Maybe also cancel an OSL playday if someone is streaming it outside of Korea?
"Chess is a dead game" -Bobby Fischer 2004
crappen
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway1546 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 12:22:34
August 21 2010 12:21 GMT
#146
You guys say Kespa came out of this one real ugly, but imo, Blizzard's NO LAN bullshit has really shown off in IEM, and I think every player agree how bullshit it is to have no-lan in tournaments like this one. I can not even imagine how irritating and spirit killing that must have been to pause till lag settles, or to suddenly be dropped.

Tomorrow I have forgotten what Kespa did, or atleast not think about it much, but instead have doubts about SC2 as a future esport.
maJes
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom186 Posts
August 21 2010 12:22 GMT
#147
On August 21 2010 21:20 rasnj wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 21:02 maJes wrote:
On August 21 2010 20:58 GTR wrote:
On August 21 2010 20:55 Plexa wrote:
On August 21 2010 20:54 maJes wrote:
Personally I think it's a fairly simple matter.

KeSPA don't have rights to broadcast SC2 in S.Korea right now.

A KeSPA licensed player is participating in a showmatch, which is being broadcasted in S.Korea.

Who's going to get in trouble if it continues? Obviously KeSPA.

It sucks that the match had to be cancelled but the only person in the wrong here is the guy who streamed it in S.Korea, and caused the chain of events to occur.

This sounds pretty plausible.. After all KeSPA agreed to NaDa playing in the show match originally.


Why didn't KeSPA do the logical action and order afreeca or whatever to shut down the person streaming the stream? It would have been less of a hassle and we wouldn't have all of this drama.


I'd assume because the burden of enforcing the rules for the showmatch is on the organisers, in this case ESL, rather than on KeSPA. I don't really understand why KeSPA should have to monitor an ESL event to make sure their asses are covered on the licensing front.

If Korean law is anything like European or American law, then it can't possibly be KeSPA's responsibility that an unlicensed third-party re-streams one of their progamer's games. The only one violating licensing is the re-streamer who obviously did not obtain a license from ESL to stream via Afreeca. Since Kespa doesn't have a license they can't themselves broadcast, but that does not mean they actively have to stop others from broadcasting.


Oh I agree totally with you.

I just think that if any trouble was to arise from this it would be far easier to just go for KeSPA than to track down an anonymous guy restreaming.

Sometimes companies do odd things to cover their asses, I think this is one of those times.
BE'YENNEH......YAOWRL.....
Defrag
Profile Joined February 2010
Poland414 Posts
August 21 2010 12:22 GMT
#148
Sc2 will never fly as an esport if there is no lan.

How many disconnects and problems were during this one tournament already? Four I think?
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11062 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 12:23:37
August 21 2010 12:23 GMT
#149
On August 21 2010 21:09 Plexa wrote:
Haven't KeSPA always struggled to shutdown illegal restreams?


It's the same with any sport. In the UK, domestic broadcasters aren't allowed to show football games at 3pm on a Saturday (originally because they want to protect ticket revenue from people going to watch games, maybe not so much a factor now that the bigger clubs' revenue mostly comes from other sources). That doesn't mean that when I'm watching Everton's game in a couple of hours, either via some p2p source or my local's foreign satellite, that the EPL will ring them up and tell them to abandon the game.
p: stats, horang2, free, jangbi z: soulkey, zero, shine, hydra t: leta, hiya, sea
infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
August 21 2010 12:23 GMT
#150
On August 21 2010 21:21 TechniQ.UK wrote:
You know im not even joking about this but bw players in kor should make a trade union so they're able to improve their conditions, rights and salaries and collectively refuse to play if kespa starts its nonsense with them. A system where the company in this case kespa has all the influence, leverage and control is never going to be good for players.




This is stupid. How much money do you think there is in eSports to pay progamers more? It's not profitable and they run solely on sponsors money, so where exactly do you think the extra money will come from for any of this.
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
August 21 2010 12:23 GMT
#151
Between KeSPA having these control issues and Blizzard making it impossible for SC2 to ever truly be competitive, I can't wait for an iccup-esque realm to be set up, and the servers for said realm are hosted in some country like Sweden where digital property rights are pretty much ignored.

Then we can laugh at them both as the community runs the game the way its supposed to be done. :|
Shitposting
Mannerheim
Profile Joined April 2007
766 Posts
August 21 2010 12:23 GMT
#152
On August 21 2010 21:02 maJes wrote:
I'd assume because the burden of enforcing the rules for the showmatch is on the organisers, in this case ESL, rather than on KeSPA. I don't really understand why KeSPA should have to monitor an ESL event to make sure their asses are covered on the licensing front.


You literally cannot prevent re-streaming of any event that's being broadcasted in any media. See UFC's troubles with ustream and justin.tv for some real world examples. KeSPA's actions were in no way appropriate.
Aikin
Profile Joined April 2010
Austria532 Posts
August 21 2010 12:24 GMT
#153
Do we know why they can´t stream kespa players in korea? I mean it was a showmatch and not really a tournament game but maybe they just can´t broadcast any show with advertisments and sc2 in it?
[A]dmiral Bulldog | Naniwa | [A]lliance
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
August 21 2010 12:24 GMT
#154
On August 21 2010 20:26 IntoTheWow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 19:56 sva wrote:
I was waiting for this thread to pop up, i wont be surprised if it gets locked quickly.


What does this even mean? :/


Rage galore?
Damn I really wanted to watch this showmatch
:)
maJes
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom186 Posts
August 21 2010 12:24 GMT
#155
On August 21 2010 21:23 Mannerheim wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 21:02 maJes wrote:
I'd assume because the burden of enforcing the rules for the showmatch is on the organisers, in this case ESL, rather than on KeSPA. I don't really understand why KeSPA should have to monitor an ESL event to make sure their asses are covered on the licensing front.


You literally cannot prevent re-streaming of any event that's being broadcasted in any media. See UFC's troubles with ustream and justin.tv for some real world examples. KeSPA's actions were in no way appropriate.


You're right, but if I recall, Dennis said that the conditions on the match stated that it wouldn't be shown in Korea, so the burden would fall on the organisers of the showmatch imo.
BE'YENNEH......YAOWRL.....
brn4meplz
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada98 Posts
August 21 2010 12:25 GMT
#156
After reading this entire thread it just seems like the Korean peninsula has issues with absolute control. Kim Jong-il in the north and KEspA in the south. Blizzard doesn't have the best interests of a global community in mind and KeSPA just wants to survive in the future. Both are making dick moves but history is nothing if not an example of victory to the juggernaut and the fall of corruption. KeSPA is screwed unless something changes fast
Give a man a fire keep him warm for a while. Light a man on fire, keep him warm for life.
vyyye
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden3917 Posts
August 21 2010 12:26 GMT
#157
On August 21 2010 21:21 crappen wrote:
You guys say Kespa came out of this one real ugly, but imo, Blizzard's NO LAN bullshit has really shown off in IEM, and I think every player agree how bullshit it is to have no-lan in tournaments like this one. I can not even imagine how irritating and spirit killing that must have been to pause till lag settles, or to suddenly be dropped.

Tomorrow I have forgotten what Kespa did, or atleast not think about it much, but instead have doubts about SC2 as a future esport.

This has nothing to do with the thread, why are you bringing it up?

And I certainly won't forget one of the most anticipated games (for me) this year got interrupted for no apparent reason. I do think some are blowing this a bit out of proportion, but it was quite low of Kespa either way. Almost seems like someone at Kespa allowed it, and a while later someone even higher up went apeshit.
aimaimaim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Philippines2167 Posts
August 21 2010 12:27 GMT
#158
may i just remind you guys that NONE of these things would have happened if Blizzard wasn't being GREEDY ..

+ Show Spoiler +
my 2 cents .. no banhammer please
Religion is a dying idea .. || 'E-sport' outside Korea are nerds who wants to feel like rockstars. || I'm not gonna fuck with trolls on General Forum ever again .. FUCK!
ddod
Profile Joined April 2009
Bulgaria144 Posts
August 21 2010 12:27 GMT
#159
Its not like the whole S Korea was watching that stream - maybe 1-2-5k people at most, which is why I think KeSPA shot themselves in the foot with that move.

Anyways what done is done.

How is the Korean community responding to this? Any Korean here so shed some light on the matter?
Black snake is evil, black snake is all I see.
Mannerheim
Profile Joined April 2007
766 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-21 12:29:56
August 21 2010 12:28 GMT
#160
On August 21 2010 21:24 maJes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2010 21:23 Mannerheim wrote:
On August 21 2010 21:02 maJes wrote:
I'd assume because the burden of enforcing the rules for the showmatch is on the organisers, in this case ESL, rather than on KeSPA. I don't really understand why KeSPA should have to monitor an ESL event to make sure their asses are covered on the licensing front.


You literally cannot prevent re-streaming of any event that's being broadcasted in any media. See UFC's troubles with ustream and justin.tv for some real world examples. KeSPA's actions were in no way appropriate.


You're right, but if I recall, Dennis said that the conditions on the match stated that it wouldn't be shown in Korea, so the burden would fall on the organisers of the showmatch imo.


In that case ESL was really dumb for guaranteeing that condition. The only realistic way to fulfill it would've been to play the game in an isolated room and not showing any of it to the public in any way.
Prev 1 6 7 8 9 10 28 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Replay Cast
16:00
Summer Cup Group B - Replays!
TaKeTV 433
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
ByuN 634
ProTech93
RushiSC 49
UpATreeSC 30
MindelVK 22
StarCraft: Brood War
Calm 3732
Britney 1335
Larva 237
Soulkey 141
Dewaltoss 124
ggaemo 119
Sexy 66
Hyun 46
soO 42
Pusan 39
[ Show more ]
JYJ 27
Rock 22
Bale 17
Sacsri 17
ajuk12(nOOB) 11
Dota 2
qojqva4010
XaKoH 480
League of Legends
Trikslyr92
Counter-Strike
fl0m3812
byalli371
Heroes of the Storm
Liquid`Hasu191
Other Games
Grubby967
Beastyqt535
B2W.Neo466
Livibee408
Hui .185
ArmadaUGS181
TKL 173
JuggernautJason110
KnowMe51
SteadfastSC48
BRAT_OK 44
CosmosSc2 29
Rex17
Organizations
Other Games
BasetradeTV235
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 17 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• StrangeGG 11
• Reevou 5
• Kozan
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• sooper7s
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• blackmanpl 40
• HerbMon 14
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis3149
Other Games
• imaqtpie392
• Shiphtur374
Upcoming Events
PiGosaur Cup
6h 33m
The PondCast
16h 33m
Kung Fu Cup
17h 33m
OSC
1d 6h
CrankTV Team League
1d 17h
Replay Cast
2 days
CrankTV Team League
2 days
Korean StarCraft League
3 days
Afreeca Starleague
3 days
RSL Revival
3 days
Serral vs SHIN
herO vs Solar
[ Show More ]
Online Event
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
Clem vs ByuN
Rogue vs Lambo
WardiTV Weekly
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #4
HSC XXIX
Eternal Conflict S2 E3

Ongoing

CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 3
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
SCTL 2026 Spring
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S3: W4
ASL S22 SEASON OPEN Day 2
Escore Tournament S3: W5
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HSC XXX
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
Light Tournament 2026
Eternal Conflict S2 Finale
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
Logitech G Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #5
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.