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FlamingLiberal posted:Not sure if this is more or less ridiculous than Sony's attempt to trademark "Let's Play". 2016 is starting off great with people trying to trademark/patent the most retarded poo poo. I'm waiting for Disney to patent "displaying image on a computer" so they can try making easy money.
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Puppy Time posted:I don't always agree with his taste, but I appreciate how well he expresses it. It's actually kind of a shame the "best of" vids are so unpopular, since I like them about equally to the "worst of." Yeah, even if I don't agree with him at times, his list this year is pretty solid. #1 song I really love because I can see it staying strong over the years unlike the other songs from the 1989 album. That, and it's a great song to listen to while driving down the road as the sun sets. Rather specific, I know.
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Leal posted:2016 is starting off great with people trying to trademark/patent the most retarded poo poo. I'm waiting for Disney to patent "displaying image on a computer" so they can try making easy money. Didn't Apple try trademarking/patenting basic computer components or something along those lines a couple of years ago?
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Max Wilco posted:Didn't Apple try trademarking/patenting basic computer components or something along those lines a couple of years ago? In 2001, an Australian guy got away with patenting the Circular Transportation Facilitation Device, commonly known as the “wheel.”
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Oops, just remembered I had JO under his old name/pronouns in the OP. Updated.
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Feb 1, 2016 10:38
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Fine Bros are just a big advert now anyways. One of their recent videos is just about how amazing Netflix is. I'm pretty sure you are supposed to clearly say that your product is advertising somewhere within the content itself but maybe thats just Australian law (or maybe they really weren't paid in which case it was just a lovely video).
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Feb 1, 2016 11:26
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Puppy Time posted:I don't always agree with his taste, but I appreciate how well he expresses it. It's actually kind of a shame the "best of" vids are so unpopular, since I like them about equally to the "worst of." I enjoy Todd's videos enough to be a patron, but he dislikes Depeche Mode and therefore cannot be trusted to always be on the right side of history.
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Wrageowrapper posted:Fine Bros are just a big advert now anyways. One of their recent videos is just about how amazing Netflix is. I'm pretty sure you are supposed to clearly say that your product is advertising somewhere within the content itself but maybe thats just Australian law (or maybe they really weren't paid in which case it was just a lovely video). Yeah, that's not the law at all in the US. Which can lead to some hilariously obvious examples of product placement. Edit: Carrying this over from the Miscellaneous Offsite LP thread courtesy of watho, this video is a pretty good breakdown of the issues with the whole React World thing beyond just the video-takedown aspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc Idran fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Feb 1, 2016 14:25
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Congratulations, JO! Glad to hear you're doing better, I've always enjoyed your work. In critic news, did anyone post Rap Critic's Top 8 of 2015? I thought it was a pretty good list, with "Aw Yeah?", "Downtown", and "u" as the standouts. poparena posted:My penultimate Animorphs review is up. #53 The Answer (Part One, Part Two). The one where a bunch of disabled children die horribly. It's kind of hard to believe that this is coming to an end, it's been so long. Did you have any plans to look at Applegate's other books, or are you just going to kick back and see what comes up next? Agent Rush fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Agent Rush posted:It's kind of hard to believe that this is coming to an end, it's been so long. Did you have any plans to look at Applegate's other books, or are you just going to kick back and see what comes up next? I do plan on gradually covering Everworld, Remnants and Michael Grant's Gone series, they just won't be my main project. My main project will be a series on the Doctor Who novels published between the show's original cancellation in 1989 and it's revival in 2005.
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Agent Rush posted:In critic news, did anyone post Rap Critic's Top 8 of 2015? I thought it was a pretty good list, with "Aw Yeah?", "Downtown", and "u" as the standouts. I really can't take this guy's opinions on rap very seriously. His metrics for what he considers good hip-hop is so narrow and backwards, and it's pretty clear that he doesn't really have that big a knowledge on hip-hop outside of the specific type of rappity-rap music he's into and whatever is playing on HOT 97 at the moment. I mean, really? Hopsin on your Top 8 list?
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poparena posted:I do plan on gradually covering Everworld, Remnants and Michael Grant's Gone series, they just won't be my main project. My main project will be a series on the Doctor Who novels published between the show's original cancellation in 1989 and it's revival in 2005. The 8th Doctor Adventures are hilariously convoluted, with plot lines that go nowhere and have no ending. Then the show brings back Paul McGann and outright goes 'yeah, those weren't canon. The audio series is the proper 8th Doctor is'.
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Max Wilco posted:Didn't Apple try trademarking/patenting basic computer components or something along those lines a couple of years ago? They patented the shape of the iPhone--in other words, a rectangle with rounded edges. Yes, they own/owned a shape.
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Feb 1, 2016 21:32
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Idran posted:Edit: Carrying this over from the Miscellaneous Offsite LP thread courtesy of watho, this video is a pretty good breakdown of the issues with the whole React World thing beyond just the video-takedown aspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc Thanks for this.
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Mr. Fowl posted:They patented the shape of the iPhone--in other words, a rectangle with rounded edges. I believe it also included the bevel. IIRC, they did not win the court case over that one. However, they did win a court case against Samsung over "slide to unlock" (because Samsung actually ripped off Apple's entire implementation of it, including extremely similar images)
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HorseRenoir posted:I really can't take this guy's opinions on rap very seriously. His metrics for what he considers good hip-hop is so narrow and backwards, and it's pretty clear that he doesn't really have that big a knowledge on hip-hop outside of the specific type of rappity-rap music he's into and whatever is playing on HOT 97 at the moment. I mean, really? Hopsin on your Top 8 list? It sounds like you didn't actually watch the video and listen to what he says.
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poparena posted:I do plan on gradually covering Everworld, Remnants and Michael Grant's Gone series, they just won't be my main project. My main project will be a series on the Doctor Who novels published between the show's original cancellation in 1989 and it's revival in 2005. Those Doctor Who novels veer between total waste of time and utterly crazy. Looking forward to seeing what you make of the latter ones. Also, congrats Jake!
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To give the whole react thing a hint of on-topicness, Dan Olson made a video about the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc
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e X posted:To give the whole react thing a hint of on-topicness, Dan Olson made a video about the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc I never thought I'd see someone use 2girls1cup as an example to discuss something. I'm also surprised that 2girls1cup doesn't trip Firefox's dictionary filter yet plenty of common words still do.
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e X posted:To give the whole react thing a hint of on-topicness, Dan Olson made a video about the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc Same page, dude. Idran posted:Edit: Carrying this over from the Miscellaneous Offsite LP thread courtesy of watho, this video is a pretty good breakdown of the issues with the whole React World thing beyond just the video-takedown aspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49fipjglyc
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Linking the video as often as possible should be the objective, here. It's a good vid.
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And speaking of, the Fine Bros are shutting down React World and cancelling all their trademarks.
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Idran posted:And speaking of, the Fine Bros are shutting down React World and cancelling all their trademarks. Wow, sometimes good things do happen in the world!
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FourLeaf posted:Wow, sometimes good things do happen in the world! Yes, it had nothing to do with their subscription count actively nosediving by the minute.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yes, it had nothing to do with their subscription count actively nosediving by the minute. I read that React had 13 mil subs. They're at 5 mil now, they lost 8 million subscribers 
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Feb 2, 2016 05:09
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Leal posted:I read that React had 13 mil subs. They're at 5 mil now, they lost 8 million subscribers They have three channels; Fine Bros entertainment, Fine Bros entertainment 2 & the REACT channel. The REACT channel only had about 5 and a half or something along those lines.
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This conflict was literally over before I even learned what was going on, much like sex or an average episode of Xavier Renegade Angel. Could someone please give me a skinny version so I don't have to watch 50 separate video rebuttals and read their accompanying master's theses?
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Beefstew posted:This conflict was literally over before I even learned what was going on, much like sex or an average episode of Xavier Renegade Angel. Could someone please give me a skinny version so I don't have to watch 50 separate video rebuttals and read their accompanying master's theses? React guys try to license/patent/trademark/something involving money and giving them legal powers over people who make videos of themselves reacting to videos on the internet. For the community, of course Said patent/whatever would let them take between 30-50% ad revenue off other people's reaction videos Internet backlashes cause its a money racketeering scheme They make a response going "no seriously guys, community!" Internet doesn't fall for it, React starts losing a lot of subscribers React does a 180 and retracts their dumb idea E: I should explain why its the equivalent of a racketeering scheme. Since "reacting to things on the internet" is a very broad definition, you know how if you upload 10 seconds of a song you can get hit with a strike? Well in theory React could hit you for having a video of yourself reacting to something on your screen. That is unless you are part of "react world", where react gets to snag up to half your ad revenue. Testekill posted:They have three channels; Fine Bros entertainment, Fine Bros entertainment 2 & the REACT channel. The REACT channel only had about 5 and a half or something along those lines. ....Why Leal fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Leal posted:
I don't even get the point of the second FBE channel but here's how it essentially works. FBE1 is for the X react to Y videos and poo poo like that whereas the REACT channel is for like the gaming, do they know, bonus videos and all that poo poo. I can understanding wanting two channels to seperate the things as there's plenty of gamers on youtube that seperate their edited videos and raw streams by having two different channels.
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Testekill posted:I don't even get the point of the second FBE channel but here's how it essentially works. It looks like TFB2 is just for bloopers. Maybe it's split apart because who cares about bloopers; TFB2 only has 700k subscribers overall.
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They should make a fourth channel dedicated to videos where they apologize for incredibly stupid ideas that make everyone hate them.
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Augus posted:They should make a fourth channel dedicated to videos where they apologize for incredibly stupid ideas that make everyone hate them. Do you mean exclusively for themselves, or a channel open to anybody who does that in general?
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Max Wilco posted:Do you mean exclusively for themselves, or a channel open to anybody who does that in general? That's an amazing idea, they should trademark that and take a 30-50% cut from every video 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yes, it had nothing to do with their subscription count actively nosediving by the minute. Oh, definitely not. It was clearly a well thought out and altruistic response to the criticism they received. We should be thanking them for their benevolence in not intending to abuse the massive amount of power it would have given them.
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The Fine brothers could have become the Timothy Langdell of "react."
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Who are the fine brothers? are they like the unfunny hipster non-video game brothers?
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Junior Jr. posted:Who are the fine brothers? are they like the unfunny hipster non-video game brothers? They do all the "Kids/Elders/Teens/Whoever React To [internet video/video game/current event/etc.]" videos. The videos themselves are okay to good, they've got charming kids/teens/elders on retainer and keep themselves out of the spotlight mostly. Honestly, until this whole debacle I had no idea what they looked like. It's sort of mind-blowing that neither of them, nor any of the people who work for them, might have thought this was a bad idea.
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SkeletonHero posted:It's sort of mind-blowing that neither of them, nor any of the people who work for them, might have thought this was a bad idea. Well I'm sure they measured the odds of this stupid plan actually succeeding against the amount of cash it would potentially bring them and then... for some reason went ahead and did it anyway. 
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