Chatty Sisa

The leaked #MassEffectUniverse trailer has sparked plenty of discussion after BioWare's shutdown. It looks good on the surface - but there are serious red flags. Here's the summary of the key points from the last livestream: youtu.be/nGPXOKTr-B0

Imagine giving a 3-hour livestream, making a perfectly reasonable statement, and discovering that somebody watched a version in which you apparently said the exact opposite. And the terrifying part is that the altered version could look completely authentic because of the simultaneous lip-syncing. There's something particularly disturbing about the idea of different viewers receiving different versions of the same speech. How do you even establish what somebody originally said when 5 people watched 5 different versions? And how do you prove that in reality you didn't say or do something, if it's part of a live stream?! The potential for abuse here is enormous... We're getting dangerously close to a world where “I saw it with my own eyes” no longer means very much. And that genuinely worries me. 😕

"...shock closure..." 🤣 ok, that was a good one... 👍

Let me repeat this slowly for those who are still struggling to understand: There's a difference between the ME IP and BioWare as a studio. Canada can try to save the studio... but can't do anything with an IP that isn't Canadian, belongs to EA (a now privately owned US company) - unless EA agrees to sell or license it. The Canadian trademark registry clearly lists Electronic Arts Inc., based in California, as the owner of both Mass Effect and Dragon Age: ised-isde.canada.ca/cipo/tra… But sure, go ahead and try to save the hollowed-out studio that doesn't own any IPs and is full of woke activists - I'm sure it'll be a huge return on investment for the Canadian taxpayers...

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