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[DalekFlay]

Kotaku link incoming:

http://kotaku.com/leisure-suit-larry-publisher-in-upheaval-after-strange-1481988709

Leisure Suit Larry's re-emergence owes itself largely to three men—Al Lowe, creator of the original 1987 classic PC game, stand-up comic Josh Mandel and Replay Games CEO Paul Trowe, whose company published Reloaded. Lowe essentially came back from retirement to lend his efforts to Reloaded, while Trowe's bio says he's been in the multimedia business for 25 years.P

Kotaku has learned that, earlier this year, Trowe pled guilty to the offense of displaying harmful material to a minor. The offense is a class-A misdemeanor in the state of Texas, where both Replay and Trowe are based. As a result of the plea bargain, Trowe received two years' probation and agreed to attend sex offender counseling.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I think scene guys have to play the game to see if their crack is working, Cowboy.

The part where "TombRaider" calimed rights to Joe's Tomb Raider interview almost made me facepalm irl. At least he seems truly angry for once .

 

[Delterius]

Duh, they'll just migrate to other streaming services.

Most of them already branched towards other streaming services, including Joe. Youtube, nonetheless, remained as their main source of revenue.

But, sure, if gameplay commentary does disappear from Youtube then another channel might become the go to place for them. Except that will never happen -- Youtube will remain as the house of publisher endorsed gameplay commentary.

 

[Baron Dupek]

So after erasing Dark Mod (not 2.0 but Doom3 addon) I decided to look for more mods for D3. And I found this.

 

[shiteatingnippledick]

I remember that, it gets pretty bizarre towards the end.

 

[Black]

They block the Youtube train mod video
Crazy Joe is not happy.


The great Youtube layoff maybe?

http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=J...H8mHJnhM&start2=0&authorName=Self+destruction

 

[Kattze]

But honestly I feel for the guy. He is a popamoler but he seems an honest popamoler.

 

[Horus]

I didn't watched any popamole review from him but his strategy games reviews are better than most so i can't hate the guy.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Somewhere out there. There is an enterprising bastard with just what it takes to kill Youtube dead with a service that doesn't suck balls.

 

[Black]

But honestly I feel for the guy. He is a popamoler but he seems an honest popamoler.

Yeah, he eat shits willingly and happily instead of selling out like the pope. That makes him so much better.
Like Toddler actually caring about the games he makes, just failing. So much better than those "fake" devs.
Give me a break, a bit annoyed spic has always been a cancer www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=51698 and his bawwfest won't change that.
Never 5get.

 

[Hirato]

I can't help but hope that youtube is just riling up their content creators so they'd collectively rebel against the DMCA and the shoot-first-questions-later bullshit it requires of google and other hosts.

 

[Echo Mirage]

I just hope it pisses the big content creators off enough that they up and leave YouTube altogether. Watching YouTube flail around as it dies from inside out will surely be the great Internet event of our age.

 

[Black]

http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...e.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk&start2=&authorName=

 

[Whiner]

So angry Joe is past denial and anger.
Now we are on the third stage - bargaining.
I'm looking forward to the final 2 stages.

 

[Black]

During his "anger" stage is the only time when he actually succeeded at this retarded shtick.

 

[Hirato]

I just hope it pisses the big content creators off enough that they up and leave YouTube altogether. Watching YouTube flail around as it dies from inside out will surely be the great Internet event of our age.

Unless the legal situation changes, at best we'd get identical services with a less annoying player.
The publishers are just going to fuck up whatever service they flock to, and that's assuming they haven't already.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Oh no, Angwy Joe is vewy vewy angwwy!

Poor losers who made money from the footage belonging to other companies can't freeload from them anymore. The pity.

 

[Oesophagus]

Well, looks like basing your entire income on a video website can be risky.

Who knew

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I just hope it pisses the big content creators off enough that they up and leave YouTube altogether. Watching YouTube flail around as it dies from inside out will surely be the great Internet event of our age.

Unless the legal situation changes, at best we'd get identical services with a less annoying player.
The publishers are just going to fuck up whatever service they flock to, and that's assuming they haven't already.

Strictly speaking, if your service isn't based in the US, surely you aren't required to comply with the DMCA?

It's stupid anyway. If you get a content id claim, you can dispute it, and then dispute it again if the content owner doesn't back off, and in the end what you're essentially allowed to do is absolve youtube of all legal responsibility and let the claimant sue you, if they so desire. Why can't you simply enable that option for your whole account and be done with it?

 

[Dexter]

I kind of agree with most sentiments that this guy brings up.

Copyright laws themselves are fucked and should be entirely rethought and I love it when I see stuff like this: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...and-offer-them-as-free-downloads-8998618.html
This is about knowledge and products to consume “for free” for specific individuals and society at large, but when it goes into the commercial sector and there seem to be people making millions filming themselves playing a game and possibly bawwing some inane shit into the camera I start seeing it a slight differently.

Or what some other people are doing, like taking Trailers they find on the web, watermarking them and re-uploading them to monetize them with Commercials on their channels which also doesn’t entirely sit right: https://www.youtube.com/user/RajmanGamingHD
And then they are complaining about it as if they had some god-given right to make money off of doing that all along and it wasn’t Google/YouTube that allowed for such a system where the parasitic leeches could make money off of their videos due to their commercial deals with advertisement partners to exist in the first place:

This isn't even about "DMCA strikes" or shit like that. Nobody is deleting their videos or even claiming that they can't put them up anymore, they are just siphoning off their funds from commercials (the annoying things that run before a video starts), if they really loved what they were doing so much they could continue doing it, they don't *need* to monetize their videos after all. But I suspect that for the majority of them it is as much “about the money” as for the companies that are going after them and they are furiously attacking because they are seeing their livelihoods being endangered.

Indeed.

And some of the biggest YouTubers also seemingly couldn't give less of a shit because they see themselves as "safe" and above all the common peasant folk: http://en.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/comments/1sq5ih/youtube_copyright_blitz_focuses_on_gameplay/

Only when it regards their own livelihood like a few months back they seem to start screaming bloody murder from the very top of their lungs:


By the way, there's a big thread going on about all of this stuff and recent developments over here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732355

It’s just a situation where I think most of the parties involved are equal opportunity assholes and kind of wholly deserve each other.

 

[Hirato]

I just hope it pisses the big content creators off enough that they up and leave YouTube altogether. Watching YouTube flail around as it dies from inside out will surely be the great Internet event of our age.

Unless the legal situation changes, at best we'd get identical services with a less annoying player.
The publishers are just going to fuck up whatever service they flock to, and that's assuming they haven't already.

Strictly speaking, if your service isn't based in the US, surely you aren't required to comply with the DMCA?

It's stupid anyway. If you get a content id claim, you can dispute it, and then dispute it again if the content owner doesn't back off, and in the end what you're essentially allowed to do is absolve youtube of all legal responsibility and let the claimant sue you, if they so desire. Why can't you simply enable that option for your whole account and be done with it?

I don't rightfully know, I'm not a lawyer.

If I had to take a guess though, I'd wager ISPs would be forced to block the site under law, and the US would probably throw its weight around a bit to force trade partners to follow suit.
Best case scenario, you can access these sources normally via proxy/VPN.

 

[tuluse]

Strictly speaking, if your service isn't based in the US, surely you aren't required to comply with the DMCA?

It's stupid anyway. If you get a content id claim, you can dispute it, and then dispute it again if the content owner doesn't back off, and in the end what you're essentially allowed to do is absolve youtube of all legal responsibility and let the claimant sue you, if they so desire. Why can't you simply enable that option for your whole account and be done with it?

If you want your service available in the US, you have to follow US laws. There is limited recourse that can be used on foreign websites, but they will be breaking the law.

 

[Oesophagus]

It’s just a situation where I think most of the parties involved are equal opportunity assholes and kind of wholly deserve each other.

Yeah, so you see, socialism, democracy and camaraderie is great up to the point where someone tries to take away your precious.

And to give credit to TB, he's been kind of open about why he's doing his vids. And if indeed he has not been affected by this because he took precautions, then fuck the whiners, shoulda woulda coulda

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Does youtube even make a profit yet?

They were running at a huge loss for Google back in 2009.

 

[tuluse]

It would really be awesome if for-pay let's players launched class action law suits against these companies for denying them their fair use rights.

Statutory damages could be insane.