| fps_d0minat0r said: Did any of you defend BP when they claimed they didnt know what the contractors were doing at the oil rig? |
This is kind of irrelevant for 2 reasons.
1. BP admitted they were partly to blame for the oil incident.
2. I don't think it was selnor's intentions to absolve MS of all blame in this situation. After all, if Company A signs a deal with Company B for a service, and company B then makes a deal with supplier 1, 2, and 3, then Company A still has some responsibility for what 1, 2, and 3 are doing. No one is denying that.
Rather, what his point was, is that all the ridiculous vitriol spewed at MS for this was unwarranted. Lets get one thing straight. The only really shady part of this whole thing was that participants were not required to put disclaimers in the video or the description. Nothing else about it was out of the ordinary for what really any big company does (and looking at the past history of Sony or Nintendo, even the lack of disclaimers is not really out of the ordinary, which is just another reason why the shitting on MS was funny).
That said, it now turns out MS was unaware of the disclaimer element. Does this cleanse them of all blame? No. Their legal team either didn't read the paperwork, or didn't read them well enough. It simply makes them guilty of general incompetence, not the hilarious stuff we have seen said about them over the last couple days or so. But will all of these people spewing this nonsense about how terrible MS is for the industry, how diabolical and unethical they are, how none of this should surprise anyone because it's "M$", will they come in here and instead direct their vitriol towards Machinima? No. Most of them are now insivisible and the ones in this thread are in full conspiracy mode.
Or maybe selnor was tired of being called a fanboy, a shill, basically a moron for not shitting all over MS for this incident? Well turns out he and the others were 100% right for refraining from that practice. Because, after all, the only "terrible" part of this is the lack of disclaimers, right? And that was not a MS decision.
