The end of fraps video game movies

[Friend_Bear]

Yep, finito bye bye its all over

Several well known publishers joined forces against popular video hosting sites such as youtube and got really nasty forcing dmca down their throats, resulting in tons of nasty legal emails and huge deletions of what was legitmate fraps movies. I myself got several nasty emails from you tube (covering there behinds) and lucasarts complaining about a couple of my battlefront 2 movies. I just checked on youtube and huge amounts of gaming movies have vanished.

This begs the question, whats going to happen to popular programs like fraps and gamecam?

[Mochan]

Fraps will be used to take framerates.

[Friend_Bear]

This is a snippet of a pretty threatening email I got, its obviously auto-generated of course. But still, mostly enough to frighten and intimidate people like most legal forms and letters...

""Dear Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Lucasfilm Ltd. claiming that this material is infringing:

Luke Skywalker: http://www.XXX.XXX/XXXXXXXXXXX

Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to avoid future strikes against your account, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others. For more information about YouTube's copyright policy, please read the Copyright Tips guide.""

Followed by legal mumbo-jumbo and threats basically, Lucasarts threatened them and there running scared because the so called 'safe harbors' are no longer safe as such, its pretty much sickening what corporate america will do to make a buck these days, bribe a politician here, pay-off a lawmaker there...so much corruption in the world these days.

The funny thing is, fraps movies and stuff like that really work to help the product, like free advertising so why would you go out of you're way to stop it? Just because its 'so called' interlectual property, techicially speaking these laws are in direct conflict with freedom of speech and expression as stated in the first amendment.

[Aku]

Corporate America is still caught up in a knee-jerk reaction to the Internet. It can't differentiate between someone stealing and profiting from their property, and someone benefiting them by sharing information about their product. Lost revenue will ultimately change this mindset. Profits are the only thing that corporations understand, and that drives their decision-making.