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Quote:Actually even without this bill they are using similar wording in separate bills against a Spanish company, that is NOT in the US to enact US law on called Rojadirecta or Puerto80. Quick side note, Puerto80 is legal in Spain by Spanish law, lets hope the Spaniards don't decide CoH is illegal.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
"Illegal streaming of copyrighted content is defined in the bill as an offense that "consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works" and has a total economic value, either to the copyright holder or the infringer, of at least $2,500"
I'd like to see NCSoft claim that a YouTube video of how a particular issue's emotes look is worth at least $2,500 in revenue.
The bill seems aimed at those things which get taken down anyway. Now, there is a penalty for those who do such stuff regularly.
This is from the government's own statement in the Rojadirecta filing, in proving financial gain. Here, the government makes it clear that even if you don't get direct financial gain from the video, if you put any ads around it, even the automated AdSense ads that earn nothing, they have enough to nab you for financial gain:
As an initial matter, Title 17, United States Code, Section 506(a) "does not require that a defendant actually realize a commercial advantage or private financial gain. It is only necessary that the activity be for the purpose of financial gain or benefit.".... Moreover, courts have held that "[f]inancial benefit exists where the availability of infringing material 'acts as a "draw" for customers.'" ... It appears that Puerto 80's revenue and profitability are directly dependent upon increases in user base and enhanced Internet traffic to the website. Thus, even if Puerto 80 does not directly profit by receiving payment from the sites to which it links that stream the content, in at least some sense, Puerto 80 apparently benefits financially from making available copyright protected works on the Rojadirecta website.
So there you have it, in the government's own words. If you have any ads on your website, they can claim that the embed "acts as a draw," and they've got enough to prove financial gain. It apparently doesn't matter if you earn pennies from it, or if the money that comes in doesn't even cover your basic costs:
the Government's investigation has revealed that the CEO of Puerto 80, the owner of the Rojadirecta Domain Names, has in fact received thousands of dollars since at least October 2005 from Google AdSense, a free program that allows website publishers to earn revenue by displaying advertisements that are likely to be relevant and of interest to users of those websites.
Let's not forget the need for Willfull Infringement. "willfulness" you only need to show that the defendant "recklessly disregarded the possibility" that embedding the video might by infringing. Not only that, but it even suggests that all it needs to show is willfulness in the "intent to copy," rather than the intent to infringe.
Although the Second Circuit held in 1943 that willful intent in the criminal copyright context need only be shown as to the intent to copy the works, and not as to the intent to infringe the copyright... recent decisions in the Second Circuit in civil cases have made clear that "[t]he standard is simply whether the defendant had knowledge that its conduct represented infringement or perhaps recklessly disregarded the possibility."
This same argument has been brought up and debunked on Techdirt Blog, which I have quoted almost completely in my response, with Mikes permission via CC. -
I logged into Virtue around 8 Eastern in Cap. Summoned pets, took about couple of minutes for them to start showing after the UI showed the power went off. Instead of about a minute to power up, train pets and what not took over 3 songs on the radio, so call it 6 -9 minutes.
Took a long while to get out of the university to go outside. Started yelping for a team, got on one and hit follow mode flight to head for the leader.
A minute or so (length of a parody ad) flight kicked in and I had my toon go to flight pose, a lil later started moving.
Saw a group of folks on my league ahead, wondered what they were doing. Once I got into my power range for twilight grasp the war walker appeared. Although I could see the buildings and players for quite some distance looked like foe visibility was quite limited for range. I would say the range was definitely shorter than the distance of the fateweaver and 'The Big Atom'.
About 2 songs later my boys caught up with me, took a shot at the war walker, and proceeded to go on coffee break. The War walker was complaining about nausea about the portal with some other folks, so took it in good form. a minute later he used some blue plasma on someone.
That was pretty much the whole hour I spent, close book, shoot; watch war walker twitch; maybe the walker shoots at something or not, get book-repeat. The fight with Bobcat, well I had her aiming recticle locked, but I never actually saw her even though she was in range for void judgement to hit. Same for Black Swan on the roof of uni, targetable foes, but totally invisible, slower than stop motion animation.
I've been on many mothership raids, and many hami raids-this was like I've never seen before. Honestly, I know the devs are wild about mega team building and event binding, but yannow? this isn't fun. -
Quote:The main times it happens for me are in Safeguards, Mayhem Missions, and Reichsman SF. Having to take time to resummon during timed missions or when the dev has placed timed ambushes aimed at you Is a bad thing. Everytime I've put in a ticket on it, they tell me about the /releasepets or to "teleport the pets where they can take some damage and they should respond normally." From the ticket responses I've gotten it appears this is a solved problem in their mind. ITS STILL BROKE.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
No need to do that.
/releasepets then resummon. (As mentioned before.) It essentially kills your pets (works for controllers, too) as opposed to just dismissing.
Yes, it is an irritating bug. -
1. When I am Leader on team not able to select mission because it says I am not the leader. I do have the star at this time.
2. Not being able to change to a different mission no matter who we pass lead to in the team.
3. Random letters put in text chat window when hitting enter to start a chat. Movement letters seem popular tho.
Sent a petition, no response either directly or by email.