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Blizzard Sues Second Korean Network Over Unlicensed StarCraft: Brood War Broadcasts
by Brian Leahy, Nov 05, 2010 2:00pm PDTEarlier this week, it was revealed that Blizzard had filed a lawsuit in South Korea against MBCPlus Media, which operates the MBCGame television network and airs professional StarCraft: Brood War leagues and tournaments.
Now, Blizzard has sued OnGameNetwork (OGN) for broadcasting an unauthorized Brood War league. (translation via TeamLiquid.net). The situation is a bit different from the MBCGame lawsuit because OGN had successfully negotiated for a broadcast sub-license from Gretech for a previous competition.
On October 26, however, OGN announced another Starleague that did not have a sub-license, triggering the lawsuit. GomTV representative Bae In Sik said, via translation, that 'OGN has already agreed that the right to broadcast belongs to Blizzard and GomTV when they started Korean Air OSL Season 2, and it's too bad that they started another league illegally.'
OGN plans to continue to negotiate for licenses during the lawsuit, but it remains to be seen if any Starleagues will actually be halted through these suits.
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We could just go one step further and say, hey, Microsoft owns Windows, so therefore Microsoft should get licensing money for each game/software application that runs on said OS (just like the XBox). They just have to update the EULA that Brian liks so much and say, "Hey Valve guys I feel like you've gotten a bit too large! Guess what? Bend over!"?
But wait, there's CPU makers, and those CPU makers use materials from mining companies, and those mining companies equipment from, and that equipment was developed using... etc, etc. How is it fair that these people aren't compensated when two people play SC2 online -- what -- Because the EULA didn't say anything about such licensing? Bah, EULAs can be updated at any second.
Reductio absurdum? Welcome the modern world, it's fucking absurd.
Where does the madness end.
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