Victor Mignogna v. Funimation Productions, LLC, et al. (2019) - Vic's lawsuit against Funimation, VAs, and others, for over a million dollars.

AStupidMonkey said:
I bet Vic would be willing to do more Qrow voice. And even one quickie job shows everyone that RT is rejecting the "we won't work with Vic" line. Which is the best they can possibly repair his reputation. At the least, a singular token of good faith.

Vic does most of his work by remote, anyways. I bet it'd be worth-it on-paper.

EDIT: and as an added bonus, good chance a KV voice actor REEEEEEE's, kicks their toys over, and runs home sobbing.
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It’s kind of a moot point. With AT&T’s announcement of HBO Max the writing is on the wall for RT Crunchyroll Cartoon Network, etc. AT&T wants to cut out the middleman, be it traditional movie theaters or third party cable or satellite networks, and pump their shit direct to consumers with nobody else getting a cut. They will be using lowest bidder dirt cheap productions like third world slave labor to piss out shit tier streaming content. RT likely won’t be able to afford Vic anymore.
 
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RodgerDodger said:
It’s kind of a moot point. With AT&T’s announcement of HBO Max the writing is on the wall for RT Crunchyroll Cartoon Network, etc. AT&T wants to cut out the middleman, be it traditional movie theaters or third party cable or satellite networks, and pump their shit direct to consumers with nobody else getting a cut. They will be using lowest bidder dirt cheap productions like third world slave labor to piss out shit tier streaming content. RT likely won’t be able to afford Vic anymore.
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At issue: absolving RT (and whatever company might inheiret its liability) from damages.

Though, I think I understand the difficulty of suing AT&T. Though the entity being sued would probably be RT alone. And, if Sony is any indication, AT&T might not want to air their dirty laundry at trial.

(And that's all assuming there's sufficient money in the WARCHEST anyways, after Round 1.)
 
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Gotcha fam
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Really interesting is the amount in controversy - Vic's team has put down "Plaintiff seeks monetary relief over $1,000,000.00 but not exceeding $5,000,000.00" in the amended complaint. Funimation itself had a 95% stake bought by Sony for $143 million back in 2017, so it's not quite "fuck you Gawker, you're bankrupt now" territory. But they definitely are the deep pockets getting targeted here, typical middle-class individuals in Texas don't have anywhere near that amount of assets subject to judgement and seizure (Texas does not like letting unsecured creditors force you to sell your house).
 
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RodgerDodger said:
It’s kind of a moot point. With AT&T’s announcement of HBO Max the writing is on the wall for RT Crunchyroll Cartoon Network, etc. AT&T wants to cut out the middleman, be it traditional movie theaters or third party cable or satellite networks, and pump their shit direct to consumers with nobody else getting a cut. They will be using lowest bidder dirt cheap productions like third world slave labor to piss out shit tier streaming content. RT likely won’t be able to afford Vic anymore.
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Then GenLOCK is royally screwed. If Vic is too high priced then everyone on that show is too high priced.

AStupidMonkey said:
At issue: absolving RT (and whatever company might inheiret its liability) from damages.

Though, I think I understand the difficulty of suing AT&T. Though the entity being sued would probably be RT alone. And, if Sony is any indication, AT&T might not want to air their dirty laundry at trial.

(And that's all assuming there's sufficient money in the WARCHEST anyways, after Round 1.)
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With the labor practice debacle, Rooster Teeth probably has more than a few disgruntled employees that would funnel corporate info to Nick and Ty. Bringing Vic back would be worth the price just to avoid a lawsuit and the shit hurricane of PR that would come with it.
 
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HOLY SHIT.

Sony just copyright claimed Vic Mignogna's deposition on Nick's livestream, in the middle of the livestream. Nick and Ty are planning to sue Sony now. This is fucking insane. I can't believe Sony would do something so fucking stupid.
 
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Larry Anon said:
HOLY SHIT.

Sony just copyright claimed Vic Mignogna's deposition on Nick's livestream, in the middle of the livestream. Nick and Ty are planning to sue Sony now. This is fucking insane. I can't believe Sony would do something so fucking stupid.
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They're not planning to sue sony, they're just pissed and Nick is going to file a dispute after the stream processes.
 
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Larry Anon said:
I'm going by Ty's reply to Nick, "Let's just sue the fuckers."
Maybe they mean it, maybe they don't.
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Like I said, they're pissed. I highly doubt they're going to sue them for that unless they start mass flagging his videos and get him completely taken down.
 
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Apterigo said:
It's very likely just a really weird coincidence that the bot happened to be Sony's. Out of all the things going on, I would have a really hard time believing Sony is that petty and stupid.
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Maybe, but this is the same company that installs rootkits on their customers computers.
 
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Apterigo said:
I would have a really hard time believing Sony is that petty and stupid.
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As a whole, no, but it only takes a woke ally to sink a company. I haven't watched the whole stream yet but I can't imagine what part of that first hour could be a false-positive for a ContentID match. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if a rogue employee who follows the weeb wars decided to get back at the nazi incels.
 
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7proxy said:
As a whole, no, but it only takes a woke ally to sink a company. I haven't watched the whole stream yet but I can't imagine what part of that first hour could be a false-positive for a ContentID match. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if a rogue employee who follows the weeb wars decided to get back at the nazi incels.
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It would take a fair amount of effort to fake a Content ID hit. The check for that is actually done through Google itself through a set of registered works. So someone would have had to find something in the stream, submit something that would trigger it into the database, and actually do this some time while the stream was occurring.

Otherwise it's a shit system and gets false positives all the time, and on a false hit, either immediately takes down your content or alternately, outright fucking steals your money and gives it to the Content ID piece of shit thief.
 
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He won that.

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From what I understand, Content ID produces a lot of false-positives on anything musical but I haven't heard any music or melody or even humming on this specific stream apart from the intro. If the intro was a match I assume that all of Nick's videos would get claimed. That's why I'm thinking of a manual claim.

My apologies if there was music on stream and I missed it. It can't be rewound at the moment.
 
7proxy said:
From what I understand, Content ID produces a lot of false-positives on anything musical but I haven't heard any music or melody or even humming on this specific stream apart from the intro. If the intro was a match I assume that all of Nick's videos would get claimed. That's why I'm thinking of a manual claim.

My apologies if there was music on stream and I missed it. It can't be rewound at the moment.
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There wasn't other than his own outro music, which was after the claim, I believe. He played the first part in the middle of the stream while out of the room and I forget whether that was before or after.
 
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