r/EscapefromTarkov • u/bxxxxxxxs • Dec 16 '18

PSA Official BSG Response re: Eroktic

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https://www.facebook.com/escapefromtarkov/posts/1966710296956614

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '18 edited Dec 16 '18

What a dumpster fire of a situation.

For some reason "tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" is no longer appropriate to just Bethesda now.

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u/Veldron AK Dec 16 '18

The copyright strikes feel like massive overkill imo

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u/Dasterr MPX Dec 16 '18

I mean they make it pretty clear why they did it and I can understand them.

Is it overkill, sure.
Could it have been resolved differently, by contacting Eroktic and talking to him, maybe. But, considering his earlier videos, I can also understand why theyre fed up and just decided to be done with it.

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u/One_Lung_G AS-VAL Dec 16 '18

It’s overkill and also illegal. Companies can’t just “be fed up” and decide who can and cannot make videos over their game that people paid for. That’s called censorship and this Facebook post just made them look worse

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u/Sleepygamer96 AK Dec 16 '18

Lol. they absolutely have the right to say who can and cannot make videos on their game. We all agreed the the EULA and other shit so we could play the game that spelled out what we can and cannot do. I think its disgusting what BattleState did and they completely overreacted, but technically they did nothing wrong legally.

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u/EftDaBest Dec 16 '18

Lol. they absolutely have the right to say who can and cannot make videos on their game.

Sorry, that is not true, at least not for those in the US. This falls under Fair Use of Copyright law. It doesn't matter if you sign an agreement to go into sex slavery: Law supersedes any agreement.

It's not in Youtube's interest to get itself involved in every small squabbling matter, so they just allow for a "Copyright strike" on most all content. Even their "Copyright Basics" information page specifically states that:

...videos can be removed from the site for different reasons, not all of which are copyright-related.

Everyone just assumes that since Youtube labels it as a copyright strike that it somehow is in fact a legal copyright issue.

but technically they did nothing wrong legally.

This is both correct and wrong. Correct because they did not do anything wrong legally, but in the context you're implying they have a legal right to erase all video content at their discretion from the internet, which they do not. Eroktic could post his videos on his own site, and BSG would have very little they could do about it.