October 2014 NPD Thread!

[DonFerrari]

binary solo said:

Conegamer said:

DonFerrari said:

And since when NPD numbers are copyrighted material? It is quite reaching to mod based on that. And if it was really moddable then these threads should have been banned from the beggining.

Before the numbers were either leaked with a range, or given to us straight from NPD. The graph literally said "DO NOT SHARE THIS" or something on the top which is close enough for me.

Anyway, yeah because of the events in this thread it's pretty much a certainty that we won't be getting NPD leaks from now on. You can agree or disagree with what we said, fine, but at the end of the day it was merely to try and keep these threads going. As it stands it seems like that won't be possible.

Dude! A leaker cannot claim copyright on material they are leaking hence any request to NOT SHARE has no weight under the vgc copyright rule. If the leaker themselves is breaking copyright and acknowledges this and states that anyone who redistributes the content is also breaking copyright then sure that could break the vgc copyright rule. But without a direct assertion of the rights of the actual rights holder then there is no clear copyright matter to be moderated.

It is like people who scanlate or fansub an amanga/anime and ask others to respect their work and not distribute outside... While they aren't the copyright holder nor respected the holder's right.