[redsniper]

Could put it up on Reddit or something and try to get popular support behind exposing this bull****?

Let's not associate with Reddit.

[SpardaSon21]

Yes, let's not go there.  It is a silly place.

[Polpolion]

Ummmmmm. I'm not certain this is incorrect.

THQ own Volition and Volition are the ones with the rights to FS2, not Interplay. Interplay just seem to have the rights to publish anything in the Freespace series (including FS3, etc). I don't think they own the assets or anything though.
 

Think of it like how a singer/songwriter still owns his song even if he can't simply re-release it under a different label.

If this is true then it seems like it should still be interplay on there, if anyone.

[karajorma]

Well the material still belongs to . I'm guessing if, for instance,  you started selling pirate copies of FS2 it would be Interplay who closed you down, as now you're violating their IP. But when you post pictures of FS2 ships or movies shot in FS2, it's who is having their IP violated, not Interplay.

Bear in mind I'm not a lawyer so this is all conjecture.

[Klaustrophobia]

That's neither here nor there for the purpose of this discussion though, is it?

says the one who brought it up?

[karajorma]

Apparently I'm speaking to someone unable to understand what an analogy is, or why you might use one.


I pointed out the similarities to a singer-songwriter in order to make my point clearer. How did your reply have anything to do with whether THQ or Interplay own FS2?

[Dark RevenantX]

This is a product of a number of people employed by various large companies to basically spend the day scouring YouTube for videos that might, possibly, vaguely, sort of, maybe, from a certain point of view, be infringements on one of the company's thousand or so copyrights.

The blame?

1. The people who mark the videos as copyright-infringed don't research enough, don't watch the video through, and probably don't give two ****s about the situation.
2. The companies that employ them are extremely paranoid and send people to YouTube to take down videos out of some retarded fear, and probably made policies that force some of them to take down the wrong videos.
3. YouTube allows third parties to take down videos in the first place.  Google could very well man up and say "**** this" and bluff the other companies into backing off.  After all, not many people have the balls to sue Google.

[Klaustrophobia]

If they decided to sue, I seriously doubt google would even be their target.  They'd subpoena google to give up the account owner and threaten/sue them.

[Dark RevenantX]

Still better than the current setup.  At least they'd focus on picking the correct videos to sue over rather than just categorically removing stuff.