You’re probably right.

No, I’m saying it’s hard to draw the line for video games. The problem is we have idiots like you extrapolating rulings over movies onto video games. It’s very easy to say N units of time of a movie is fair use, but a lot harder to reason about with a video game. Fair use has not been clearly defined so you can fuck…

A. Firewatch. Not Battlegrounds. And given what Firewatch is, you most definately can get a ‘full’ experience from just watching a LP.

A movie can’t play half of a song, while there are explosions going on, and dialog on top of the song, without the explicit consent, and licensing agreements of the owners of the song

I hope they are tried as adults.

I totally see where you’re coming from, as I’ve done the same thing. I bought uncharted 4, but didn’t want to invest the time into playing 1-3. So I watched a full playthrough of 1, and then watched a summary of 2 and 3.

I agree that the H3H3 case isn’t super close because we’re dealing with different products here: video games vs youtube videos.

The comparison between video games and movies/music doesn’t work. I could more or less get the full Guardians of the Galaxy 2 experience on a commented stream, but I can’t get the full experience of Player Unknowns Battlegrounds by watching someone play it. This argument only works for visual novels, which means it…

I don’t particularly like the comparison between video games and movies/music because the definition of “full playthrough” is completely elastic, and changes per game. When somebody streams a movie or a song you more or less can get a full (although degraded) experience of that product. For video games, I’d only say…

Not sure EULA would help here, as it probably didn’t cover a case of someone cursing on a stream. Also note that on their website they give explicit permission to stream and monetize:

No, the better and non abusive avenue is to complain with services that enable him (twitch/youtube/sponsors) which I think will drop like flies soon. Abusing an already fucked up copyright system that could set a precedent that would screw over thousands of streamers and content creators is pitiful.

Is it abuse if the company that made the game wants to stop him from making money out of their content?

Pewdiepie’s stream is not their property, so it is abuse of the DMCA.

Pewdiepie is a racist but abusers of the DMCA should fuck off.

Umm...ok?

Sure it was bad but it didn’t have to resort to puppies and ramen.

Did bungie realize their Lore is so laughably bad they decided to roll with it?

How can you forget Mr. FCC

I filled my xbox live friends list with just people that played the Splinter Cell Double Agent Multiplayer Demo. Now it seems like people don’t even use microphones when I play PS4

Glad they understand that retention rates are equally or more important than filling some arbitrary quota. There’s no point reaching YAY 43% women! when shitty culture and hiring processes mean they end up leaving within 3 months.