http://wiiudaily.com/2013/05/nintendo-lets-play-controversy/

Personally, I feel Let's Players should be left alone.  I don't think copyright law particularly applies to this situation, as I see it differnently than animated music videos or recut films.  For a song artist, they can potentially lose a sale of their song because someone can hear it off of YouTube.  For a movie, someone can watch it off YouTube.  For a game... you can't really play a game off of YouTube.  And honestly, if someone just wants to see the game played without playing, they're still not going to buy the game, regardless if the LPer gets ad revenue or not.

Let's Plays are valuable sources of information.  Not only do they demonstrate a game being played to help out a person struggling through a specific level, but it's also a resource that a consumer can use if they're researching a potential purchase.  Stealing away an LPer's income source for making these videos is akin to charging writers for reviewing their games, or for writing FAQs and strategy guides.

Should Major League Gamers be charged for training on a publisher's video game?  Should a portion of the prize money be allocated to, say, Capcom because someone won a tournament playing Street Fighter X Tekken?  Now, I know what you're thinking.  "No, because they're sponsored." or "No, because it's promotional; they're advertising the game."  Well, Let's Players are also promoting these publishers' games.  The publishers don't have to pay these YouTubers to talk about their games, but instead are stealing their income for doing so.  This is like CBS signing over checks to Square-Enix every time a GameSpot employee talks about Tomb Raider.  

Here's an interesting thought.  Why not Sony charge whoever plays the game that's being shared to them over the PS4?  Why should some guy on the other side of the country be able to play someone else's game for free?  "That's unfair!"  Right, and so is taking ad revenue from LPers, who BOUGHT the game in the first place!  And in case you don't want to read the article I linked, I'll just pluck a quote out of it. 

"Theyre [Let's Plays] a great form of advertising and sadly, the way Nintendo is punishing people for playing their titles is going to do more harm than good, when it comes to exposure for their games. YouTube personalities will be less inclined to make lets play series based on Nintendo games since they get no revenue, which decreases exposure. Word of mouth exposure has always been one of the most premium forms of advertising for games."

Exactly.  The only difference is that these LPers are making a few dollars doing it.  They're taking time out of their day to spend playing YOUR game, which they BOUGHT, and spreading the word.  If you as a publisher are really bothered by that, then how about you pay them instead?  You didn't play the game for them, so how dare you take away what they earned?  

I know this is a grey area, and I can see exactly how copyright law would apply to these situations, but that doesn't mean I think it's right.  I don't like the way it works, and I think it needs to be reformed.  It also sucks for me personally, because I was thinking about doing this in the future.  Now, not so much.  If I really have to agree with this copyright law, then I figure I how about 100 different publishing houses money, because I earn a living shelving their books in my library. 

Bonus Content: Rich's take on Nintendo's claims. 

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Well everyone, can I just once again say thank you for the wonderful comments I received on that blog. I received more comments on that blog then I have any other, and it really made me happy, as did everything you guys said, thank you again! I definitely think that is the best blog I ever done, with the best comments as well, and I couldn't be happier with it.

And now it is time for an explanation. Why SGR did you do this? You're not leaving; these blogs are meant for when people leave, why do it now? Well my friends, it's a simple story of some things I went through, I'll try not to make this too long but it will be due to my ranting tendencies, sorry about that, but anyhow:

Our story begins oh I'd say about a few months ago. There was a movie I saw in my film class, this was a film in my last monthly blog if you remember, it was a film called……Ikiru. Ikiru was a film about a middle aged man who realized he was going to die in 6 mere months, and that for the past 30 years of his life, he was living a dead life, a life of nothing but the same, schedules, without meaning, he wasn't even living, the film often says he was a "mummy," which I thought was really clever and just flat out true.

Throughout the film the protagonist goes on to realize how he should be living his life, and in the end he's able to do something that leaves a mark and makes many people happy, and in a very touching manner dies at the very place where he makes his final mark on the world.

This film really hit me hard when I first saw it, and I remember thinking about it for a while after I saw it. The big revelation though came soon after, I think a week or so after seeing the movie, I remember it was Wednesday, and I was sitting in a class, a boring class, just sitting, off into my own mind thinking, not paying attention to the teacher.

I started thinking about Ikiru, about the film, about how amazingly kind, peaceful, and strong the protagonist became towards the end, and how he did it. How knowing he was going to die gave him this powerful ability to fear nothing, and do whatever he wants, knowing that in merely a few months he'll be gone. I also thought about my new brony friends, those amazingly kind friends of mine I talk to on forums and read about whilst lurking. I thought about how they're able to say all these kind wonderful words, and seem to always be working, always loving, stopping at nothing to help every brony in need, seeming to be afraid of nothing.

And then I thought about myself, my life. The things I've done, the people I've met, the places I've been……the people I've hated, the people I've wronged, the people I find it hard to be kind to, to be myself around, etc. And then I thought about my favorite quote from Ikiru, a quote that has since stuck with me and practically become my new motto in my life, a quote the protagonist says to a character when he finds out how hard he's having it, and how despite all that he's never given up in being kind, and has almost never been angry. He asks the protagonist to stop and take a break, and that these people have been very rude to him and that they should be stopped and punished. The protagonist then turns to the character, and ever so quietly and peacefully says:

"Life is too short and precious to waste any time hating."

And as I thought about all these, something clicked, something connected the dots, and I just realized what I had to do. There are so many things I've done in my life that I regret, people I've hurt, people that I didn't tell them how I really felt until it was too late, letting down myself, and that well, I gotta fix them. What I realized in that very moment was that I could die any moment, and so could all my friends and family, all of you, at any moment in our lives we could die by some accident. Tomorrow morning you may never see me again. But in realizing this, in accepting this, when I came to realize that we'll all be dead in time and that hundreds of years from now we'll all be forgotten, I could do anything.

The fear I've always had of doing things began to disappear. I started thanking people who helped me more for what they do, because you know, there's so much hatred in the world, I can't help but love and appreciate all the kindness I'm shown. I began confessing to a few, telling them how much I care and am thankful for them, and telling those I wronged of the bad things I did and how I'm so sorry. When I fully was able to grasp the concept of death and how we could die at any moment, I gained the ability to truly live.

Like the wonderful bronies I met, I feel much stronger and kinder to well everyone, and I can't help but just love all the good things I see in the world, and the world as a whole, it's such a beautiful place. Like the protagonist of Ikiru I felt like a new person, and I've been trying as hard as I can to fix things, to make my life great before I go, because well let's be honest, I could go at any time.

My friends, if there's one thing I'd like to say to you all, it's to never forget how wonderful life is, to never take it for granted. Life is such a beautiful wonderful thing, that I just can't waste any of it hating, or being angry, I just can't do it anymore, and I've never been happier, so I encourage you all to try and do the same. The main character of Ikiru knew when he was going to die, we won't know when we're going to die, we won't be as lucky as him. All the good byes you want to say to people before going, the good bye blogs, you may never get to do it. I'm sure we've all heard this saying at least once, and it can be oh so hard to do, but as much as you can:

"Live every day of your life as if it were your last."

I did that with my last blog, that blog was a blog I made with the thought that it would be my very last blog, and I'm glad I did it, now in case anything happens to me, I'll know I did this, and if it happens, I won't be very sad, I can happily say that I have nothing more I want to say before leaving, and I encourage you to do the same. People don't know how great or loved they are, and often forget or lose sight of this and begin viewing people and the world in a dark light, don't let these people you love forget how much they mean to you, and how great they are. Because in all honesty, you may never get another chance to, as we don't know when that time comes, and not to be blunt or rude but, in the end we'll all be dead in 100 years, and no one will remember what embarrassing or weird things you did, so don't be scared! Use death to your advantage, use death to live, like I have, as that's the brilliance of life and death:

"If we never had death, we could never truly live."

Thank you to everyone who read this, I love you all very much, and wish you nothing but the best. Good luck!

Weeks Later…

Well, it's been a while since I wrote this up, since that revelation of mine, and I dunno. I'm starting to find it hard again to be honest with people, to tell them everything I want, to do everything I want, to truly live, I'm starting to take life for granted again.

Ikiru actually touches on this subject. At the end of the film, we see 8 or so guys learn of the protagonist's tale at his funeral, and they make a toast and vow to live every day of their life as if it was their last. A month later, we see that in fact, just about all of them have sunken back into the life of a mummy. We see the final one, the one who was touched by the protagonist the most, go to the others ashamed of what they've done, going to remind them of their vow, but then they all turn to look at him, and the man sinks under his work desk, dead inside.

It's a depressing scene, but it's true! I was shocked at how after a few weeks of my free amazing life, the old ways started coming back, and I didn't know why! I began valuing material things again and getting angry with people, and I couldn't believe myself! Though I should add, it really hasn't gone that far at all into fights or anything haha, just not as much as I used to be.

I have to admit though, it's much harder for me to do offline. Online I can easily tell people I'm sorry, and how much they mean to me. Offline though it's just….so much harder! They stare into your eyes, it's so hard to get 1 on 1 time with people like you can online, so hard to get a time when you're both quiet too, and if I don't have any of those conditions, it's just so hard for me!

I don't know, it seems I still have a ways to go, ways to improve and make the world a better place. But you know what, I can do this, and I know I can, I've done it online after all! And I plan to over Christmas break, I plan to with the two people in the world whom I dislike the most, whom I may actually hate and wish bad things to, which I am ashamed of, and whom I would love to make amends with the most; my younger brother and my father.

I'd like to watch Ikiru again, I think after writing this too I feel like I can do more and be stronger and honest. We all fall, it happens, but, like the way Ikiru ends, you can get back up. After being destroyed emotionally by the other men who made vows, the sole remainder goes to the place where the protagonist died, and looks up to the sky thinking what to do. And he seems to realize what he must do, is able to reclaim that spark of strength, and then he heads off and the movie ends.

So again, thank you to all who read this! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, and enjoy this time of giving, live happily, and live proudly! Bye all, take care, and have a very Merry Christmas, my next blog will touch upon my lack of activity and what this means for the future, but until then, I'll see you all later,

-SGR

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I'm certain about one thing... one posts is too short to talk about everything that happened with me in this time of my ausence, but I'll try. Let's begin...

In the moment that I writted my last blog, I was dealing with a channel of TV here in Brazil (I'll not make drama, direct in the point ) called Multishow, we did a contract and I they gave me a chance to star one TV show called "Ser  Que Faz Sentido" based on the name of my youtube channel 'N o Faz Sentido'. In this sitcom I play myself (Yes, myself Felipe) a guy that searchs to be an Actor, and crazy things happens everytime wiht him (oh wait, not with him, with ME xD) That's it, I already recorded the first season of the Show, 15 episodes with 15 minutes each. And that's it all my busy in these days...

Here's a chapter of my TV show... watch at least the 6:02

With this images and the video you realize that my TV show is very "normal" right

I finished all the recordings but events and some other things took my time, I can't do anything to evade this...

About the Christimas and the New Year... I really sorry to not pick a time and wish Merry Christimas and Happy Neew Year to you all, really sorry for that... the case is, I was in Paris, so the last thing that I see in that local is Internet, I was of vacation of all

Moulin Rouge

Anyway, if still valid my Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You All (late but done).

Another point is, a lot of people are asking to me here in my inbox about the flood in Rio de Janeiro, my city, friends, unfortunately a lot of people falled with this disater, the state of calamity are declared here... fortunately, Me and family and friends are okay, our houses aren't in risk areas. But i felt sad for the people here. Thaks to all that asked and remembered me, even I far from here (I talk about GS) for a long long time... really my Thanks! Again, it's everything okay with me.

And that's it, I wish i could talk more her, I have things to talk, but it's best to leave to another updade right...

Oh, and my gaming life it's okay... I'm not a traitor od the games

Thanks for the read, I don't know when I'm back, but this is not a goodbye

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This are the rules for my vict- I mean friends

1. Put Your iTunes (or other music player) on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends.
6. Anyone tagged has to do the same, because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus. (Same questions and all)

How would you describe yourself?: Where is the love - Black Eyed Peas (Lol)

What do you like in a guy/girl?: The Mirror - Dream Theater (Some how that actually makes sense)

How do you feel today?: Change - Miwo(I think)

What is your life's purpose?: Feel Good Inc - Gorrilaz (Sounds about right)

What is your motto?: Rock that Body - Black Eyed Peas (How did it get that right? )

What do your friends think of you?: Shooting Star- Home Made Kazoku (Sure it makes sense somewhere)

What do you think of your parents?: If We Ever Meet again - Timbaland Feat Katy Perry (Random)

What do you think about very often?: Califonia Gurls - Katy Perry (Accuracy is creeping me out now)

What is 2 + 2?: Fighting Dreamers - Flow

What do you think of your best friend?: II About to Crash - Dream Theater (Its funny cos its true =P)

What do you think of the person you like?: Villian- LittleKuribo (Enough said XD)

What is your life story?: Erotomania - Dream Theater (True, if it means what I think it means lol)

What do you want to be when you grow up?: Pump It - Black Eyed Peas (Bodybuilder or crazy a** dancer?)

What do you think of when you see the person you like?: My Humps - Black Eyed Peas (lmao)

What will they play at your funeral?: I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas (So mean)

What is your hobby/interest?:Asterix - Orange Range

What do you think of your friends? Brooklyn Rage - LittleKuribo (Just funny)

What will you put as the title?: Dare - Goriilaz (No problem)

So I shall choose a small no of people, and to mix it up I will let you guys choose the other 6 cos I am to lazy to do it myself =P (Just post their names here and I will pm them)

Tagged:

Balmane,

Rockstar964,

TristanH12,

General Kody,

Mattdog98

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go orange vikings go.

spain will suck.

its all orange now.

we will we will rock you 1..1

and you are the champion , aaaaa ... haaaa haaaaa.

ooooo ... we will we will rock you ... ooooo ... we will we will rock you.

BATMAN RETURNS:

the returns of batmans is the second movies of batman that tim burton done a great job on it.

the story begin when a reach family born a unusual boy ... he wasnt bad, he could live like others but ... but forhis parents he was a danger and shyme, so they escape from the fate and give the boy to the river... but after a long time ... .

the boy grows and he didnt trust humanity world, he watch people from close view but from long rang! ...he wanted respect but he didnt know how?! how he can take it ... so he start for what he want and he was like a monster ... attack the gotham city but the big devil was waithing for him.

when he saw that with his actions people just start hating him he robb one of the biggest man in the city ... he want the big man help him but he refused to help ...he just do for fame ...nothing less, so the boy who is a old man now,show him some of his files ... so big man had no way but to help but he start making him an evil and he made another one too ... he thought that a poor girl cant stand agains him but she did that ... stand tall with cat lifes.

now gotham is full of unusual super human{ cat woman, bat man, penguin }, penguin couldnt stand in human worlds because he didnt realise that he came to the human worlds, he think like a kid but others know how to turn theyre back to him ... make him fool {because penguins live so far from people so they dont know much }... so he came back and start his revolutin ... and he stand until the last brith ... so penguins never foger him ... he was one of them.

cat woman knows her way better and took what she wants ... she knows that how she could make mans fool because cats have enough experice in this case ...

*******

this project was so complicated because burton had to show 4 main character in this movie, not just batman or joker and he had to show all of their life without confusing the crowds and fans.

this batman is one of my fav because i was a kid when i saw it and from that time a couldnt forget this movie because the character of penguin was so exciting for me but now i can compeletly understand whats penguin wanted ... respect but respect pleasuremaks the biggest devil.

one especial thing about batman story for me is that every character have an animal power.

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