Why is everyone talking about a low level spat with apparently famous-lite 'celebrities'. I've seen many people discussing it, but no one discussing why anyone cares ... which leads me to believe there is some self evident cultural importance I've missed?
First and foremost there is drama. Near all of it isn't worth tuning into (in my opinion.)
This event in particular is the first time something solid can be verified that has crossed legal lines. For years, individuals and companies have been abusing copyright to claim ownership of works they did not strictly own or strike down works they did not approve of. The worst of it was 10 years ago when creators were being hit with DMCA takedown notices for parody, satire, or critique. In short: trying to abuse the legal system to prevent free speech or fair use.
Most famously, OfficialNerdCubed gave a bad review to a game, the developers later fixed the game and then threatened to sue him for retroactive defamation if he didn't take down the video. Sterling was sued for $10million for a bad review they gave to a Digital Homicide game. Because of these early tuffles, individuals and companies backed off on trying to abuse the legal system in this way.
In short again: this most recent event with Pirate Software struck an every present nerve with the gaming and creator community. But it's hard to get into that because all of the other Pirate Software drama blends together as just noise.
I disagree with the "all the other pirate software drama blends together as just noise"
His behavior here and in other scenarios are indicative of his character. He is as some would put "a repeat offender", he's been lying and putting smaller (and sometimes bigger) people down so he can continue to climb his social ladder.
He has a history of striking people on YouTube for harassment for critical videos of him, and bans people in his chat for asking for clarity on these matters (in his right)
While yes, drama can be a non serious matter, and not necessarily relevant to the case in hand, the fact is that he's done this type of thing before, and will continue to do so.
Thanks for the clarification and taking the time, that makes some sense. Nor enough sense for me to look further, but I understand why others are interested now.
PirateSoftware has really, *really* good life advice. On his popular youtube shorts, he often offers examples of how he handled certain situations or outlooks on human behavior as why you would always wish for him to be your supervisor, leader, boss, or CEO in whatever occupation you find yourself in, because he speaks as a perfect manager.
This makes his poor takes and bad faith actions all the more spicy and juicy to normal people because this person that they look up to is making objectively bad arguments and reasonings to justify his worldview and intentions.
His stance on the StopKillingGames act is horrifically ill-faithed and poorly stanced. He deliberately misrepresents the StopKillingGames act to argue against a strawman, and refuses to discuss the manner with anybody on the StopKillingGames proposition board even after they made efforts to reach out to him.
This newest drama regarding a false DMCA takedown because he got whiny is just more salt into our wounds. In a perfect world, a human would not raise nor lower any other human on up on a pedestal or down into a trench, but in actuality, we give merit to those we believe are righteous and withdraw trust to those we believe are selfish. PirateSoftware gave us lots of reasons with raise his personality on a pedestal, so every time he takes an axe and chops at the roots of said pedestal, it's shocking.
That's what makes this drama so impactful, at least to the people who knew him for any longer than a year, myself included.
I don't like Pirate Software, but, let's be clear and honnest. Ferrentino pulled a bait and switch with the ad, the initial DMCA wasn't warranted because he lied on his trailer/promotional material and not because Pirate is an asshole or he is missinterpreting something.
It is not fair use to use the voice or likeness on a comercial product. You can't rip the voice of a music and use the stems without paying to make a parody, you can hire an artist to play the song and sing over it. Same on everything else.
The Steam DMCA should be removed and he should sue the developer directly for the correct reason.
I feel like Ferrentino just got a whole lot of free advertisement…
Why is everyone talking about a low level spat with apparently famous-lite 'celebrities'. I've seen many people discussing it, but no one discussing why anyone cares ... which leads me to believe there is some self evident cultural importance I've missed?
Good question.
First and foremost there is drama. Near all of it isn't worth tuning into (in my opinion.)
This event in particular is the first time something solid can be verified that has crossed legal lines. For years, individuals and companies have been abusing copyright to claim ownership of works they did not strictly own or strike down works they did not approve of. The worst of it was 10 years ago when creators were being hit with DMCA takedown notices for parody, satire, or critique. In short: trying to abuse the legal system to prevent free speech or fair use.
Most famously, OfficialNerdCubed gave a bad review to a game, the developers later fixed the game and then threatened to sue him for retroactive defamation if he didn't take down the video. Sterling was sued for $10million for a bad review they gave to a Digital Homicide game. Because of these early tuffles, individuals and companies backed off on trying to abuse the legal system in this way.
In short again: this most recent event with Pirate Software struck an every present nerve with the gaming and creator community. But it's hard to get into that because all of the other Pirate Software drama blends together as just noise.
I disagree with the "all the other pirate software drama blends together as just noise"
His behavior here and in other scenarios are indicative of his character. He is as some would put "a repeat offender", he's been lying and putting smaller (and sometimes bigger) people down so he can continue to climb his social ladder.
He has a history of striking people on YouTube for harassment for critical videos of him, and bans people in his chat for asking for clarity on these matters (in his right)
While yes, drama can be a non serious matter, and not necessarily relevant to the case in hand, the fact is that he's done this type of thing before, and will continue to do so.
Thanks for the clarification and taking the time, that makes some sense. Nor enough sense for me to look further, but I understand why others are interested now.
PirateSoftware has really, *really* good life advice. On his popular youtube shorts, he often offers examples of how he handled certain situations or outlooks on human behavior as why you would always wish for him to be your supervisor, leader, boss, or CEO in whatever occupation you find yourself in, because he speaks as a perfect manager.
This makes his poor takes and bad faith actions all the more spicy and juicy to normal people because this person that they look up to is making objectively bad arguments and reasonings to justify his worldview and intentions.
His stance on the StopKillingGames act is horrifically ill-faithed and poorly stanced. He deliberately misrepresents the StopKillingGames act to argue against a strawman, and refuses to discuss the manner with anybody on the StopKillingGames proposition board even after they made efforts to reach out to him.
This newest drama regarding a false DMCA takedown because he got whiny is just more salt into our wounds. In a perfect world, a human would not raise nor lower any other human on up on a pedestal or down into a trench, but in actuality, we give merit to those we believe are righteous and withdraw trust to those we believe are selfish. PirateSoftware gave us lots of reasons with raise his personality on a pedestal, so every time he takes an axe and chops at the roots of said pedestal, it's shocking.
That's what makes this drama so impactful, at least to the people who knew him for any longer than a year, myself included.
I don't like Pirate Software, but, let's be clear and honnest. Ferrentino pulled a bait and switch with the ad, the initial DMCA wasn't warranted because he lied on his trailer/promotional material and not because Pirate is an asshole or he is missinterpreting something.
It is not fair use to use the voice or likeness on a comercial product. You can't rip the voice of a music and use the stems without paying to make a parody, you can hire an artist to play the song and sing over it. Same on everything else.
The Steam DMCA should be removed and he should sue the developer directly for the correct reason.
Thank you for this comprehensive and fair overview.