Back in the early 2000's RAM companies were investigated for Price Fixing and ultimately had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and some execs even went to Prison... And its all about to happen again! Steam Machine Killer PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8kUjAa9oo ○ Get your JayzTwoCents Merch Here! - https://www.jayztwocents.com ○ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWQ0gDrqOCarmUKmppD7GQ/join ○ Join the official JTC Discord! https://discord.gg/jayztwocents ○○○○○○ Items featured in this video available at Amazon ○○○○○○ ► Amazon US - https://amzn.to/43wnUsz ► Amazon UK - http://amzn.to/Zx813L ► Amazon Canada - http://amzn.to/1tl6vc6 ••• Follow me on your favorite Social Media! ••• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jayztwocents Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jayztwocents Instagram: http://instagram.com/jayztwocents# SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/sub2JayzTwoCents --- 00:00 In This Episode... 01:14 RAM Cartel Lawsuit 08:03 Sony Kills Physical Games 15:49 Protect Our Games Act Update 16:36 Sony Kills Physical Games, Cont'd 22:16 PC Shipments Down 7% 24:18 Intel CPU Price Hike 25:36 New Game Studio With Bold Open-Source Claim 28:31 ESA Says Private Servers = Piracy 29:33 dbrand Unsurprisingly Shoots Self In Foot 33:55 What Do You Want To See Next?
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They need to make the fines well into the billions. We need to make it hurt so badly they'll never ever do this crap again.
While I think it is great news they are being investigated. I shall hold off on celebration until some of the RAM Cartel go to jail.
BILLIONS. Fuck hundreds of millions. Actually make it hurt.
making billions and only get fined millions. Sounds like profit to me
Hundreds of millions is a rounding error to these companies.
They already made their billions. They don't care about a few million dollar fine.
The fines need to be 50% of yearly profits for 5 years, not allowed to lay off employees for 10 years, and prison time for those decision makers who were responsible.
Considering what a joke of fine they get if they are CAUGHT AGAIN...
Well considering the fine was 100s of millions last time, they should do billions this time.
"If buying games is not owning, then pirating is not stealing." I heard that quote recently and it made me think of preservation. The sad reality of this is the piracy is going to become the number one way to save and preserve the art form that are video games.
32:00 the only dbrand litigation I recall is when Caseify made a case that was similar to the skins dbrand sells showing device internals. I believe the issue there was that there was dbrand related Easter eggs they had placed on their skins that showed up on the caseify case indicating they were copied from dbrand’s design then slightly changed. Edit: it was the teardown skins that dbrand collaborated with JerryRigEverything. He has a video explaining the findings.
If purchase isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft.
If a person steals $200,000 but only has to repay $2,000 they are still ahead of the game. With “white collar” money, I’m sure those CEO’s/executives would barely serve a year of their sentence before being released. Now scale the above mentioned dollar amounts to the billions, the investors will not care.
This is the third time. 2005, 2018, and 2026. You just don't hear much about 2018 because the charges were dropped for nonsensical reasons.
85% profit margins, needs to be a major multi billion dollar fines on all of them.
Another thing no one is talking about is that digitally distributed versions of movies and shows are prone to censorship on a whim. "Current events" may cause a show to be altered or pulled altogether if "the man" deems it problematic for viewing.
26:50 they could make it "copyleft" like GPL or AGPL licenses. The code is open but works that derive from it must use the same or a more open license, making the derivative game impossible to be closed. This would be the same situation of the BambuLab for the slicer, or Vizio TVs that use copyleft components and turned them closed source
RAM 'em
:30 Regarding open source and legal rights, it entirely depends on which license they use. While all open source licenses generally allow commercial reuse, some require that the derivative code be open sourced as well, a practice referred to as "Copyleft" by supporters and "viral licenses" by critics. You do give away all "royalty" rights with open source, which is entirely the point of it.
28:00 You can open source a project and still license it under something like CC BY-NC, allowing for modification and redistribution so long as it is not commercialised.