Technology

My hate of the copyright-ownership side of Hollywood / Nashville / Atlanta, etc. has been burning white hot since the days that the RIAA was suing people using P2P networks. But, I had to admit that at least they could probably make a valid claim for copyright infringement. But this?!

It's interesting how it's the "Performing Right Society" (which I've never heard of). The "performing" part of that suggests that maybe they have an issue with people sharing clips containing music, or live streaming games where they share music. But, again, why Valve? Sure, people can share clips with friends. And, occasionally you see developers streaming their games. But, nobody is really "performing" live streams on Steam. I suspect they just think Valve is rich and so they can strong-arm them and Valve will settle to make them go away. I hope they bit off more than they can chew. Valve is indeed rich, and they have a tendency to be stubborn. I think they might well fight, and fight hard.

I wish a possible outcome was that the PRS ceased to exist. But, I suspect they're like a flea or something, and even if you knock them off from this attempt to suck someone's blood, you can't kill them, and they'll just find another victim.

That's like suing Spotify, Tidal, Amazon, etc for an artist in their library not licensing a sample correctly

Are they going to sue to operating system owners next? What about the web browser that offers the steam installer download?

This is the type of thing that pushes developers towards AI music generators and similar tools.

Being a piece of shit human being should be enough disbar lawyers.

This kind of lawsuit only makes things worse for musicians who are already struggling with making money performing and recording. This will be challenged, beaten and leave a bad image for artists as not everyone is going to draw logical conclusions from it.

It’s not about artists anyway despite their claim, it’s about labels. The artists doing well are doing their own thing recording, touring, selling merchandise and making sure their followers are getting value for money. The traditional labels are losing control the same way the magazines did.

These idiotic lawsuits. First of all, this isn't even Valves responsibility. Second, Steam/Valve are small frys compared to Amazon/Apple/Google/Microsoft. In gaming they may be smaller than Sony and Nintendo and those two have full on closed software platforms. Steam is one software store among many on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. All these groups want to enshittify PC gaming. They want to enshittify personal computing in general. Turn pre-iPhone smartphone operating systems into iOS

I feel like they should get a committee of people together who understand how technology works before they start making laws about it

everybody attacking Valve, maybe my tin foil hat is too cozy but it;s a concerted effort by the psychopathic elite to ruin our lives. may their glans be afflicted by a million paper cuts and a salty storm

all they do is demonstrate why no game should use licensed music ever. cant stream of make videos of those games either without having to worry about this shit.

I think ever since Valve fought through their first lawsuit with Sierra and lucked out with them finding evidence showing destruction of evidence, they probably developed zero appetite to fold for frivolous lawsuits lol.

Because Valve has money.

Meanwhile, big AI vacuums up the entirety of music produced by everyone from piracy sites for profit and noone bats an eye

Isn't this kind of like suing blockbuster over music in the films they rent? Seems a bit daft, but there must be a reason they think it might succeed.

What the hell is with the Flurry of legal attacks against Valve now?

There have been so many lawsuits against Valve recently from so many different angles. I'm not usually one for conspiracy but I wouldn't be shocked if this is a coordinated campaign to unseat Valve from their monopoly on the PC gaming market so that other games industry corporations can move in. They've been trying and failing to break into this market for years because Valve has built so much consumer loyalty.

Shouldn't they be suing the game publishers not the reseller?

So EA and Microsoft according to their docket?

What even is this lawsuit? Can somebody help me understand the accusation(s)?

Because it kind of reads like "you sell games that have our music, and don't pay us" which obviously makes no sense. Most of the article is absolute fluff.

P1: prs is suing valve.

P2: valve doesn't have a license to.... Do what? Is this extortion?

P3: prs music is on steam.

P4: valve ignores us. We want to sue them for infringing "the UK's s20 copyright, designs, patents act 1988"

P5: musicians work hard. Prs protec.

P6: music important. Musicians important.

I feel like by this logic Amazon and Walmart would also need to obtain lisences to sell video games that have music in them...

That or I'm too tired and bread dead to understand the stupid shit I just read.

"The litigation will progress until Valve obeys" sounds an awful lot like extortion.

They are clearly trying to double/triple dip on shit that already been paid for and licensed.

Whats next?

Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?

For the people that don't see how manufactured some of the attacks against Valve have been lately (not that this will help convince them regardless...)

Looking through the things PRS does, I wonder why anyone would join. Why call yourself an artist when you contribute to an entity that stops people from playing music to animals or whistling to themselves?

Like seriously. It's a group of artists going around shutting down parties. Musicians telling everyone to go home. Probably thinking "it's not my fault, it's the industry, if I want my fair share I HAVE to bully individuals and small businesses."

If they sued games like Beat Hazard for letting players use their own music in the game, that'd be like suing a media player for letting people play music with it.

So imagine how much dumber this is.

Dan Gopal, chief commercial officer, PRS for Music said: "Our members create music that enhances experiences and PRS exists to protect the value of their work with integrity, transparency, and fairness. Legal proceedings are not a step we take lightly, but when a business’s actions undermine those principles, we have a duty to act.

tl;dr they're after the money.

They're extortionists. This outfit is doing RIAA moves and surely annoying as those IP litigators whose business is to let loose bots and flag anything with a DMCA that remotely smacks of what they define as piracy.