Hey, Fujii Mutsuhiro of Sega of Japan! Your'e scum!

[noiseredux]

thanks Dave!

btw, has anyone tried the Halo Half-Life mods on DC?

[Retronomy]

thanks Dave!

btw, has anyone tried the Halo Half-Life mods on DC?

Are... are mods even possible?

[Retronomy]

Just an update to the situation.
I actually won against the copy right strike and the videos are restored.
Take THAT Fujii.

[noiseredux]

thanks Dave!

btw, has anyone tried the Halo Half-Life mods on DC?

Are... are mods even possible?

Half-Life mods are very possible on DC. There's lots of them. The obvious ones to check out are higher profile stuff like Counter Strike or They Hunger. But yeah, if you look into the DC homebrew scene there's quite a lot of HL mods to get into.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Just an update to the situation.
I actually won against the copy right strike and the videos are restored.
Take THAT Fujii.

Nice work!

[dsheinem]

Just an update to the situation.
I actually won against the copy right strike and the videos are restored.
Take THAT Fujii.

how did it go down? can you fill in details of the steps along the way?

[Retronomy]

Just an update to the situation.
I actually won against the copy right strike and the videos are restored.
Take THAT Fujii.

how did it go down? can you fill in details of the steps along the way?

It was actually quite simple.
Youtube's copyright strike system is very much fire first, ask questions later.
The first time I tried to send my counter notice it for whatever reason did not go through. So, I tried again. One reason being the principle, the other being that three copyright strikes leads to the termination of your youtube account.
This 'Fujii' sent in two strikes, which left me with one strike away from losing that account.

Once a counternotification is sent in, the entity that made the strike has 10 days by youtube's estimation (although by law he had 14 days) to follow with legal action. If this isn't made within the time frame, it defaults to the owner of the individual and the video is restored and the strikes are forgotten.

Whether I got lucky and sent it at an inconvenient time, or 'Fujii Mutsuhiro' simply does not have the authority to claim copyright, which is most likely the case is unknown. However, the latter is most likely considering his position if it even is the real Fujii Mutsuhiro.

There are still some questions that will likely never be answered,Why, who, and what the hell being a few. I've pestered various branches of Sega of America and Sega of Japan and none of them acknowledge that I even exist.

[Retrodude]

See, this is the exact reason why I end up downloading so many Youtube videos to my hard drive. If I find one I like, I'd better save it immediately 'cause it might not be there tomorrow (and in fact, exactly that situation has occurred before). I swear, copyright law is so broken at this point that I find myself pirating stuff purely as a means of protesting. Not trying to debate if that's right or wrong, but chew on this: The entertainment industry brings in BILLIONS of dollars a year. You know how much they lose each year to piracy on average? $50-60 million. That's all. Can you say "greedy"? Of course, they don't want people to know that, so they do everything in their power to convince people who don't know better that they're the victims in this whole scenario. It's disgusting.

[Retronomy]

You know how much they lose each year to piracy on average? $50-60 million.

You can't lose what you don't have. That's my standpoint on the situation.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I will agree that the intellectual property laws in the United States are weighted entirely too heavily toward corporate copyright and patent holders. I think that current copyright and patent laws actually stifle competition and innovation, contrary to thier original purpose. (You have to have reasonable, well-enforced intellectual property laws to encourage innovation, but the laws in the United States go way beyond "reasonable" to the point where they have a chilling effect on innovation.) That is the result, however, when you have a few well-funded, deeply-invested interests that lobby against the enactment of laws that would benefit everyone a little bit.