Some stupid Congress thing.

[Ningyou]

So wait, how is it different if you film a game?

How can you film a game? Games are not real.

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[YoshiDude]

Wait until the law that gets passed that makes the Internet illegal.

[Legodude77]

Wait until the law that gets passed that makes the Internet illegal.

Mass riots.

[Dr.Block]

I'm going to jail five times. See you guys later.

And here's my question: On the internet, they want to make it illegal to film and post videos of video games, but they're not enforcing any laws against posting images of dismembered people on 4chan? The forget is this?

[Skele]

This is one way to waste tax payers money.

[Menen]

This is like the red queen from Alice in Wonderland.

She arrested almost everyone.

OFF WITH YOUR HEAD

[Sami2ss]

this is when we need stuff like anonymous, not for some handicapped ass "for the lolz" stuff.

[Dodger]

This is one way to waste tax payers money.

A smart one too. Instead of say, oh, improving education, we waste resources arresting young adults and teens for broadcasting a little game to their friends and some other people even though they aren't claiming to be the original owner of the game, just because of some rigid and extremely strict copyright law which most of these companies actually don't care about. That will satisfy the public for sure.

[TeslaCoil]

And this ladies and gentlemen, is why I hate a ton of the people in Congress. Not all of them are bad shoes though.

[sir dooble]

So wait, how is it different if you film a game?

It's not about what you film.
You could make a film that includes someones house, but they couldn't sue you for using their house like that.
The reason they can prosecute you for filming a game, is because a game is already a piece of media belonging to someone else.
This is in the sense of it being someone elses product.
It's the same as you buying a brand of liquid soap, pouring it in a different bottle, labling it as yours and selling it on.
It's illegal and claiming someone elses product as your, regardless of if you make money out of it or not.

You filming gameplay or filming a movie, is re-recording someone elses media creation and publicly hosting it to the world for anyone to see, without giving information that it belongs to the original creator nor is it providing royalties to the creator, which the creator deserves for creating it.

And you can't get sued for filming someone elses property if it's not a trademark or copyright.
Your example of filming your friend house isn't illegal, because that house isn't a trademark of him or his business, nor is it a creative object of his, nor is it a patented or copyrighted idea of his.

[Sami2ss]

oh god this is just like that story about the woman saying she owns the sun

[sir dooble]

oh god this is just like that story about the woman saying she owns the sun

I know, right.
The real money is in ownership of the moon.

[Mecha]

oh god this is just like that story about the woman saying she owns the sun

For a second there I thought you meant the newspaper

[Fruit]

I highly doubt a bill this ridiculous and unobligated, will pass.

[LizzyRascal]

I highly doubt a bill this ridiculous and unobligated, will pass.

I hope not. D: