Streaming Game Videos to Become a Felony?

[MarkRyan]

Capcom even said they don't care.

Capcom doesn't have to care. If it's criminalized, the state can act without the copyright holder taking issue.

Making this a felony is a joke. The US is insane.

[Frogacuda]

Frog CANNOT be talked to about these things. He defends everything of the video game industry no matter how dumb.

How is explaining the rights people have against this kind of thing any sort of defense of either the legislation or the video game industry? Especially when I called the legislation "bullshit." Did you even read my post?

Also, fun fact: We both work in the same industry: media. Our magic fairy that needs to be defended is advertising. We'll always have shit to write about (believe me, dude, I can write about more than just games, I just do it because I like it) but unless people believe advertising works, we're fucked.

I know it's appears to be a stupid question, but we are talking about streaming video, which the Onlive service uses. Are they paying royalties to the gaming companies, or are they using a loophole like that of Blockbuster renting videogames?

Game companies get paid for every game sold on OnLive and only one person gets to play it. It's like saying a movie theater is in trouble now, it doesn't make sense. OnLive is the kind of thing they WANT; a hyper-controlled, all-digital environment where the end user owns nothing.

[Yoshi]

Would this in some way, affect Onlive?

[Yoshi]

For example, Apple patented the concept of touch screens that could detect more than one touch at once. NOT a specific technology for doing that, just the whole IDEA of multi-touch. Now a lot of people have since appropriated that, knowingly and willingly, and are being sued by Apple. Thus far Apple has not won their case, because patents are largely meaningless horseshit, but if they got the right judge and they won, should Motorola's suits go to jail? That's absolutely ridiculous, Yoshi.

That's exactly what I said. There is no way to enforce it in today's system. If patents were specific, and Motorola knowingly stole Apple's design, then yes, throw them in jail.

[Dipstick]

That's exactly what I said. There is no way to enforce it in today's system. If patents were specific, and Motorola knowingly stole Apple's design, then yes, throw them in jail.

How do you throw a corporation in jail?

Apropos of that: when was the last time an executive of a major, multi-national company went to jail for wrongdoings the company engaged in?

[Yoshi]

Enron? I guess it depends on your definition of major.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

I highly doubt this even has anything to do with game videos. Yes they'd be affected if it passed, but I guarantee you the impetus for this came from the RIAA.

EDIT: Close enough, it's the MPAA.