In the case of a baseball match, the league typically owns copyright in the TV coverage. Viewers of MLB matches on television, for example, see a notice to the effect "This presentation may not be rebroadcast without the consent of Major League Baseball." There's no law that can be used against MLB to keep MLB from selling rights to broadcast its clubs' matches.
An esport match differs in that there's a tier of ownership higher than the league, namely the game's publisher. A publisher can use copyright in its game product against any league that doesn't toe the publisher's line.
Team Fortress 2 is a 'substitute' for Counterstrike and Overwatch, for example.
That'd be like saying rugby is a substitute for gridiron (American or Canadian) football. I don't feel soccer, rugby, gridiron, Australian rules, or Gaelic football are substitutes for one another in the same way that American and Canadian football are substitutes for each other.
They can't stop someone from playing the game... but they sure as hell can stop anyone playing under whatever they are governing.
Once FIFA expels a league, that league can no longer claim affiliation with FIFA. But so long as that league doesn't claim such affiliation, what right under the law of any developed country does FIFA have to keep that league from playing matches by the same rules, using a pitch and ball with the same specifications as those used by FIFA members?
And anyone can code their own video game if they really want to.
One who codes his own video game that conforms to a particular esport's regulations would be sued and lose. Tetris v. Xio (2012) was the particular case that woke me up to this.
I have to imagine that the clubs have some sort of agreement with the video game publishers.
A publisher still has the right to decline to make such an agreement with a given club, even if it has an agreement with a different club. This lets the publisher play favorites. It also, more likely than not, has the right to terminate an existing agreement with any club.
the operating system is similar to having a large enough patch of grass on which to play soccer. Somebody's gotta pay for that.
But if a city wants to put up a regulation size football pitch in a public park, FIFA has neither the right to refuse permission nor the right to a royalty.
to play professionally, you will have to invest in much more expensive regulation gear.
But in ball sports, there's no law prohibiting companies from manufacturing regulation gear. There's no Tennis Company that can sue you and win just for making and selling a tennis racket that conforms to the spec.
Perhaps the real difference you're getting at is this: Several manufacturers make computers for use with X11/Linux. You can run it on a computer from Dell, System76, or any of several other brands. Likewise, several manufacturers make tennis balls, rackets, and nets, and they don't need permission from The Tennis Company. By contrast, only one publisher is allowed to distribute necessary software for a particular esport, unless it's either A. free software (such as SuperTuxKart) or B. a computer adaptation of a traditional tabletop game (such as Internet chess).
Anyone has the right to manufacture a bicycle for use with cycle polo. Anyone has the right to breed ponies for use with traditional polo. And anyone has the right to think up new polo variants using newly developed personal vehicles.
In esports, by contrast, a game publisher's copyright precludes this sort of incremental experimentation.
Why exactly is an "increased investment in esports" a bad thing for these teams?
Under current law, a video game's publisher has the exclusive right to play the game in public. This means it can end a league's license to stream the league's matches at any time for any reason or no reason.[1] It can also cause an esport to cease to exist by turning off a game's online multiplayer matchmaking server and threatening suit against third-party matchmaking servers.[2] By contrast, the governing body of a ball sport lacks power to shut down a league.
Slack scrolls whatever the fuck was said earlier right off the damn screen, and good luck finding it.
Discord has a "scroll to oldest unread message" button. Click it, then start reading down until you're caught up. I can't test this in Slack at the moment, but I'd be very surprised if it did not.
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
Case in point: If a song is in a foreign language, typing the closest mondegreen might not do you much good. "In a sauna here", "Shot Osama here", and "Broken condom style" don't turn up "Gangnam Style" by Psy. (Or at least they didn't before the parodies arrived.)
Forums are not quite the same as chat. Though the logging in Matrix, Slack, Skype, and Discord makes it less synchronous and ephemeral than IRC, it's still in practice somewhat more synchronous than something like Slashdot, where multiple-paragraph researched replies are commonplace. In something asynchronous like a threaded or nested forum, you can compose replies to several comments on your lunch break and still be seen as a participant in the discussion. And at least one analyst believes that synchronous communication puts people in minority time zones at an unfair disadvantage ("Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications" by Dave Cheney).
Voice: 0 words per minute because the rest of the team isn't necessarily online at the same time. Written word: 80 wpm after spending some quality time with Mavis or Mario.
Descriptions of Polybius closely resemble the gameplay of Gyruss. It's not included in this particular collection, but you can find it elsewhere if you arrr interested.
If technology is your true obsession in traditional Slashdot sense
Many people for whom technology is their true obsession have friends or relatives for whom technology is not their true obsession.
then you could really care less about people running Windows because it's not you.
I regularly use Xubuntu but must support friends and relatives using Windows. Some use Windows because all applications or peripherals in a particular category are incompatible with X11/Linux.
You're already running Linux and think the rest of the world should just give up, and you're paying for gigabit fiber because #fiber.
If fiber costs 6 figures where you live,[1][2][3] you're probably not going to get fiber even if you are technically inclined.
You'll not even be aware that the ISP's covering the majority of the population
Several of my friends are or were among the minority who use satellite or fixed cellular because they live in an area not covered by fiber or cable.
or you'll be thankful that in Windows you can set a connection as Metered to limit background downloads.
Does "Metered" stop these particular applications from being downloaded? Last time I used Windows 10, I seem to remember that the UI of Windows Update stated that some updates (to the effect) "necessary to keep Windows running" would still be downloaded over metered connections. In addition, the UI allows marking only Wi-Fi, not an Ethernet connection to a satellite or cellular modem, as metered. It's possible to mark Ethernet as metered but only with registry tweaks.
life is pay to play and you're the one in the boondocks.
And that's the fault of city zoning boards that threaten residents for just growing a victory garden. In addition, who can serve residents of the boondocks other than a business in the boondocks?
How many PCs does a company need before it qualifies to buy Windows 10 Enterprise licenses? And how much does it cost per seat? In my experience, "Request a Quote" as stated in Microsoft's comparison page means "if you have to ask, you can't afford it." The "Learn More & Try" link ultimately links to an ROI calculator, but I could not try the ROI calculator because it was blurred out by a modal dialog that requires the user to submit personal and company information and authorize a Microsoft salesperson to contact the user.
or just uninstall the apps
Just uninstalling the apps doesn't undo the fact that having downloaded them in the first place counts against the monthly data transfer allowance that your ISP imposes.
Do you expect the majority of desktop and laptop users in small and medium businesses to give up their desktop or laptop PC in favor of a mobile device connected to a cloud system backend? I didn't think so.
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So, in the sense that bridge is now recognised as a "mind sport", how is competitive video gaming any different?
Nobody owns exclusive rights in bridge, chess, or go.
Then why do leagues end up selling their souls to publishers by choosing Overwatch or some other proprietary game instead of YSoccer?
In the case of a baseball match, the league typically owns copyright in the TV coverage. Viewers of MLB matches on television, for example, see a notice to the effect "This presentation may not be rebroadcast without the consent of Major League Baseball." There's no law that can be used against MLB to keep MLB from selling rights to broadcast its clubs' matches.
An esport match differs in that there's a tier of ownership higher than the league, namely the game's publisher. A publisher can use copyright in its game product against any league that doesn't toe the publisher's line.
Team Fortress 2 is a 'substitute' for Counterstrike and Overwatch, for example.
That'd be like saying rugby is a substitute for gridiron (American or Canadian) football. I don't feel soccer, rugby, gridiron, Australian rules, or Gaelic football are substitutes for one another in the same way that American and Canadian football are substitutes for each other.
They can't stop someone from playing the game... but they sure as hell can stop anyone playing under whatever they are governing.
Once FIFA expels a league, that league can no longer claim affiliation with FIFA. But so long as that league doesn't claim such affiliation, what right under the law of any developed country does FIFA have to keep that league from playing matches by the same rules, using a pitch and ball with the same specifications as those used by FIFA members?
Polo, cycle polo, and scooter polo are sports to the same extent as field hockey, and miniature golf is a sport to the same extent as golf.
And anyone can code their own video game if they really want to.
One who codes his own video game that conforms to a particular esport's regulations would be sued and lose. Tetris v. Xio (2012) was the particular case that woke me up to this.
I have to imagine that the clubs have some sort of agreement with the video game publishers.
A publisher still has the right to decline to make such an agreement with a given club, even if it has an agreement with a different club. This lets the publisher play favorites. It also, more likely than not, has the right to terminate an existing agreement with any club.
the operating system is similar to having a large enough patch of grass on which to play soccer. Somebody's gotta pay for that.
But if a city wants to put up a regulation size football pitch in a public park, FIFA has neither the right to refuse permission nor the right to a royalty.
to play professionally, you will have to invest in much more expensive regulation gear.
But in ball sports, there's no law prohibiting companies from manufacturing regulation gear. There's no Tennis Company that can sue you and win just for making and selling a tennis racket that conforms to the spec.
Perhaps the real difference you're getting at is this: Several manufacturers make computers for use with X11/Linux. You can run it on a computer from Dell, System76, or any of several other brands. Likewise, several manufacturers make tennis balls, rackets, and nets, and they don't need permission from The Tennis Company. By contrast, only one publisher is allowed to distribute necessary software for a particular esport, unless it's either A. free software (such as SuperTuxKart) or B. a computer adaptation of a traditional tabletop game (such as Internet chess).
Anyone has the right to manufacture a bicycle for use with cycle polo. Anyone has the right to breed ponies for use with traditional polo. And anyone has the right to think up new polo variants using newly developed personal vehicles.
In esports, by contrast, a game publisher's copyright precludes this sort of incremental experimentation.
Why exactly is an "increased investment in esports" a bad thing for these teams?
Under current law, a video game's publisher has the exclusive right to play the game in public. This means it can end a league's license to stream the league's matches at any time for any reason or no reason.[1] It can also cause an esport to cease to exist by turning off a game's online multiplayer matchmaking server and threatening suit against third-party matchmaking servers.[2] By contrast, the governing body of a ball sport lacks power to shut down a league.
[1] "Why Nintendo can legally shut down any Smash Bros. tournament it wants" by Kyle Orland
[2] "EA shuts down fan-run servers for older Battlefield games" by Kyle Orland
Slack scrolls whatever the fuck was said earlier right off the damn screen, and good luck finding it.
Discord has a "scroll to oldest unread message" button. Click it, then start reading down until you're caught up. I can't test this in Slack at the moment, but I'd be very surprised if it did not.
Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?
Only if you can understand the lyrics.
Case in point: If a song is in a foreign language, typing the closest mondegreen might not do you much good. "In a sauna here", "Shot Osama here", and "Broken condom style" don't turn up "Gangnam Style" by Psy. (Or at least they didn't before the parodies arrived.)
Forums are not quite the same as chat. Though the logging in Matrix, Slack, Skype, and Discord makes it less synchronous and ephemeral than IRC, it's still in practice somewhat more synchronous than something like Slashdot, where multiple-paragraph researched replies are commonplace. In something asynchronous like a threaded or nested forum, you can compose replies to several comments on your lunch break and still be seen as a participant in the discussion. And at least one analyst believes that synchronous communication puts people in minority time zones at an unfair disadvantage ("Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications" by Dave Cheney).
Voice: 0 words per minute because the rest of the team isn't necessarily online at the same time. Written word: 80 wpm after spending some quality time with Mavis or Mario.
Descriptions of Polybius closely resemble the gameplay of Gyruss. It's not included in this particular collection, but you can find it elsewhere if you arrr interested.
If technology is your true obsession in traditional Slashdot sense
Many people for whom technology is their true obsession have friends or relatives for whom technology is not their true obsession.
then you could really care less about people running Windows because it's not you.
I regularly use Xubuntu but must support friends and relatives using Windows. Some use Windows because all applications or peripherals in a particular category are incompatible with X11/Linux.
You're already running Linux and think the rest of the world should just give up, and you're paying for gigabit fiber because #fiber.
If fiber costs 6 figures where you live,[1][2][3] you're probably not going to get fiber even if you are technically inclined.
You'll not even be aware that the ISP's covering the majority of the population
Several of my friends are or were among the minority who use satellite or fixed cellular because they live in an area not covered by fiber or cable.
or you'll be thankful that in Windows you can set a connection as Metered to limit background downloads.
Does "Metered" stop these particular applications from being downloaded? Last time I used Windows 10, I seem to remember that the UI of Windows Update stated that some updates (to the effect) "necessary to keep Windows running" would still be downloaded over metered connections. In addition, the UI allows marking only Wi-Fi, not an Ethernet connection to a satellite or cellular modem, as metered. It's possible to mark Ethernet as metered but only with registry tweaks.
[1] "Want fiber Internet? That’ll be $383,500, ISP tells farm owner" by Jon Brodkin
[2] "Man builds house, then finds out cable Internet will cost $117,000" by Jon Brodkin
[3] "Victorian couple quoted up to $1.2m to connect to NBN Co's fibre service" by Jessica Longbottom and Ben Knight
life is pay to play and you're the one in the boondocks.
And that's the fault of city zoning boards that threaten residents for just growing a victory garden. In addition, who can serve residents of the boondocks other than a business in the boondocks?
Nonsense, either get an Enterprise license
How many PCs does a company need before it qualifies to buy Windows 10 Enterprise licenses? And how much does it cost per seat? In my experience, "Request a Quote" as stated in Microsoft's comparison page means "if you have to ask, you can't afford it." The "Learn More & Try" link ultimately links to an ROI calculator, but I could not try the ROI calculator because it was blurred out by a modal dialog that requires the user to submit personal and company information and authorize a Microsoft salesperson to contact the user.
or just uninstall the apps
Just uninstalling the apps doesn't undo the fact that having downloaded them in the first place counts against the monthly data transfer allowance that your ISP imposes.
"Grooming" will not recover the $10 per GB that your satellite or fixed-wireless ISP bills you for having downloaded the apps in the first place.
Do you expect the majority of desktop and laptop users in small and medium businesses to give up their desktop or laptop PC in favor of a mobile device connected to a cloud system backend? I didn't think so.
What edition does Microsoft expect a small local business with about a dozen PCs to buy?