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LightningAce11 posted...

So.... dsp believes he paid a "licensing fee" to stream his gameplay and make money off it.

Even though there's never been precedent for restreaming someone he insists it is illegal.

Phil is dead fucking wrong though. You pay for a license to use the software, to play it in the case of games. You DON'T pay for broadcasting rights, which is what you do with Twitch: you rebroadcast the game. This is something that falls under licensing/copyright and don't ask me the specifics, but that is how it should be approached.

Now, and dev under the sun could sue and streamer under the sun for rebroadcasting their games, because it is completely illegal, because none of these people paid fees or have contracts that give them these broadcasting rights.

However!

They are making way more money by the free advertising that happens organically by having people stream these games. If someone averages 1.000 viewers and manages to get a 5% conversion rate, that is 50 people who bought the game, more if it is a popular streamer who has way more viewers. They don't have to spend money on advertising, to get more people to buy the game. It is literally a win-win for the dev, and is usually approached by giving big names early access, to generate free buzz. It's kind of clever really.

But under no circumstance is it legal, people just realize that it is free marketing, and it earns them way more than it would cost to fight it.

Phil just likes to believe he knows all this shit, while googling for 2 minutes proves him (in almost ANY case, wrong).
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