In 2007, a Korean company called Fantom started distributing a music video (Sonata of Temptation) by K-Pop star IVY that contained an unauthorized live-action scene-for-scene adaptation of a scene from Advent Children.
Square Enix filed an injunction and the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fantom to cease distribution and sales of the video in April, 2007. In March of the following year, it then decided that Fantom should pay approximately $250,000 in damages to Square Enix.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.
this is bad news, it will only encourage square enix to be more like microsoft and sue the hell out of companys
Doesn't surprise, they've been very protective of their assets for a long time now.
Good ol' Squenix. Looking at every opportunity they can get to shaft the customer even further.
Some guy: "Hey, let's release all of our old games on the DS and it'll sell millions - then we can downgrade the graphics of our upcoming Final Fantasy game that way we don't have to do anything too impressive, and everyone will blame it on the 360!"
Everyone: "Brilliant!"
Though, it still is the 360's fault, Squenix is a different company that it use to be. If they were only in a financial crisis like the SNES era, then we would have the classics that spawned back then (Final Fantasy saved their asses and now they milk that sh!t dry).
It's about time Koreans learn to respect copyrights and finally start making something new and fresh. (Microsoft, anyone?)
Mooey, Square Enix never was a good company. That was Square, or Squaresoft.
Ever wonder where FFVII came from? Sony.
Sony helped them, gave them technology, and spent a hundred million dollars promoting the game in the US alone. The only reason Final Fantasy series is popular outside of Japan is because of Sony. Mr. Wada should learn a thing or two from Dogs.
i'd say that they shouldn;t sue people who are obviously fans, but the clip was a legit, full music video, and they were making money from it, so good on SE, and sucked in to the people who appealed and got screwed worse, i know i would never take a clip from a movie etc and use it in a music video, because any idiot knows its ILLEGAL