Video Game Movies "Not Creative Expression"

GamePolitics is one of many that is reporting on the impending removal of video game movies from the video hosting site Vimeo. While they have agreed to leave machinima alone, all walk-throughs, strategy videos, pvp battles, raids, etc, will be deleted on September 1st. "The Vimeo staff does not feel that videos which are direct captures of video game play truly constitute 'creative expression.' Further, such videos may expose Vimeo to liability from the game creator(s), as we have already seen action from popular video game companies against videos such as these... Gaming videos are by nature significantly larger and longer than any other genre on Vimeo ..."

Comments

Leeeeroy Jenkins!

[jollyreaper]

Just sayin'.

Re:Leeeeroy Jenkins!

[gblackwo]

I for one did not know LJ was staged. You've just ruined it for me. Much like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and of course WWF.

Re:Leeeeroy Jenkins!

[Alzheimers]

I always wondered about those shifty World Wildlife Fund people...it always seemed too good to be true, and now I know it was.

Re:Leeeeroy Jenkins!

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

What, you think pandas are real? C'mon, man. Everybody knows a black bear dipped in bleach when they see one. That stuff is faaaaaaake, dude!

Re: Video Game Movies "Not Creative Expression"

[CopaceticOpus]

I can't be the only one who read the title and expected a story about Uwe Boll...

Dreadful job

[Pennidren]

I feel sorry for whomever they put on the task of discerning which videos fit these categories. Boring.

Re:"Vimeo"? Who?

[Krater76]

Cue "First they came for the jews" letter.

A video game thread that wasn't about Wolfenstien just got Godwin'd...

Re:It's their site.

[philspear]

Careful, CNN and the other "news" channels will copy this as an excuse to stop reporting on stories they think you're not interested in (which it's hard to show an interest in stories they don't run...)

I can see it now:
"In foreign news: nothing. All countries did their own thing, mind your own damn buisness! Here's the latest haircut Brittney got!"

Re:"Vimeo"? Who?

[CelticWhisper]

Can I at least link him to my armour for a stat boost?

Re:Where's the outrage?

[Tankko]

So they need a disclaimer at the end of video games. This one in WoW's case:

So, in WoW's case, you'd never see the warning. :-)

Simple Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Go with open source games and eliminate our addiction to non-free games. Then there would not be any issues with video game movies at all.

Re:"Vimeo"? Who?

[H0p313ss]

Armour is spelled correctly, you ignorant American. Armor and armour are both legitimate ways to spell the same word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or

Breath in... and out.

I'm an ignorant Brit. living in Canada so you can bite my hairy Hobbit ass you pedant.

Re:"Vimeo"? Who?

[H0p313ss]

I'm an ignorant Brit. living in Canada so you can bite my hairy Hobbit ass you pedant.

Then one would think you would at least know the correct Canadian spelling of "armour".

I'm lexdisic you heartless bastard! *weeps*

:-)

Connected Ventures in Annoying Legal Advice

[Anonymous Coward]

Connected Ventures, the company behind vimeo, made another significant change on one of their sites this week that I can only attribute to some sort of legal advice. Collegehumor.com removed the "R-rated" category on their pictures index page, and it took me a full two days to find an obscure link to the "R-rated" section in the footer of their homepage. I missed out on self submitted college coed 'boobies' pictures for at least 48 hours. I barely made it.