Let's Play: S.978 Criminal Copyright Infringement
Published 2011-07-03
BTW does this go in "Gaming" or "News and Politics"?
All Comments (9)
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I have been very actively opposing this bill, sending letters to my state representatives and senators, as well as donating to various lobbying groups to help get this bill shut down. They either need to rewrite the whole thing to be much, much more specific in what it means, or it needs to die. Simple as that. I absolutely LOVE watching "Let's Play" videos (including yours, among many others), and I would be devastated should they use this as a means to litigate against you and other LP'ers.
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@DangoTeff That's the ultimate goal. Hollywood content creation processes demand large amounts of input capital, which requires a monopoly on human culture in order to make a profit. Fundamentally, the Internet is a copy machine. Thus it threatens the Hollywood monopoly and makes it harder for them to justify soulless, explosion-filled Michael Bay movies.
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@DangoTeff No, it's an unintended side effect, but it's not one they plan to fix because the only way to fix the bill is to keep the government from enforcing copyright, which is what Hollywood wants in the first place. Copyright enforcement isn't cheap; and there are too many infringers for one company to go after alone.
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@DangoTeff Watch the video response. My view is that basically, the reason why the US Congress continues to do this is that culture is our biggest export, to the point where it's the only valuable thing we produce, and nobody else can export even a fraction of the amount of culture we export. Since US culture exports are valued in US dollars, it strengthens the dollar. Unprotected copyright means less money for hollywood and less control over the economy.
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The reason why you don't see things getting taken down is because either: 1. The copyright holder explicitly authorizes videos based on their game (i.e. they have a machinima policy) 2. The copyright holder doesn't give a shit 3. The uploader has a partnership with Machinima or TGS who negotiates these rights issues behind the scenes. Aside from #3, a game company CAN do takedowns. This happened to people who mentioned a certain SEGA game, and even partners got copyright strikes against them.
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@DangoTeff Uh, no. It's more like, the soviet state communists were actually just capitalists who managed to trick enough of the Russian peasantry in order to get control over Russia. These actions are par for the course in capitalism; in fact, it's how Marx defined capitalism (too bad Marxists are shitty socialists). Fundamentally in order to have large corporations, they need a state to offset the costs of being huge as well as protect their markets from more nimble competitors.
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Great, more internet gestapos...
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its not illegal to record gameplay and upload to youtube. read the box of your dazzle/hd pvr elgato what does it say?? record gameplay share with your friends on youtube.... ?? piracy for games would be bootlegging or slandering the game and developers. im confused too. i aim for partnership doing letsplays.
