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Post by chazraps on Feb 27, 2019 3:43:58 GMT -5
I cannot fathom how anyone can read that and not sympathize entirely with Jarrett. I hope he kicks their asses in court. Jarretts shouldve had a copy of the GFW stuff, its not Anthems fault Jarrett was a moron for not having data backup, also him believing the GFW stuff was more worthy than all of WCW, thats bllshit tbh. That's illegal
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 8, 2019 17:08:38 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2019 18:15:45 GMT -5
This is almost 'show Robbie in the crowd and kill The Highlanders' career' level of selfishness and malice.
The new ass so often the same as the old.
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Post by dav on Mar 8, 2019 18:38:13 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100 To be fair, that most likely is out of TNA's price range these days...
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Post by markymark on Mar 9, 2019 11:27:27 GMT -5
This is almost 'show Robbie in the crowd and kill The Highlanders' career' level of selfishness and malice. The new ass so often the same as the old. Ironically speaking that was Jarretts idea
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Post by SAJ Forth on Mar 10, 2019 3:14:42 GMT -5
TNA, just TNA.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 10, 2019 11:56:33 GMT -5
That's actually probably the bigger story here in the long run, since who knows what else Anthem would designate as taking up too much space on a hard drive. They could have potentially wrecked one of their most valuable assets, and it would take a long time before anyone knew about it, especially if they were to attempt to sell portions or the whole of their content library. Only if we take it at face value; what they're claiming is dumb, but TNA is owned by a TV company. It wouldn't be a stretch in my mind for them to have deleted the masters for more spiteful reasons after the Jarrett deal fell through, where they just didn't care about preserving the footage and decided to be dicks about it. "We deleted the masters in the natural course of business" is a nightmare sentence and it sounds like a load of horseshit on some levels. Yeah, this isn't the 70's and 80's were tape was expensive, bulky and you needed to care for it. EVERYTHING is digital and digital storage is unbelievably cheap and a TV Network should have a pretty damned huge file server that 16 like what 2 hour shows shouldn't even be a drop in their bucket. This was done out of incompetence or spite.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fingers on Mar 10, 2019 12:04:55 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100 They have RVD money, not money money.
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Post by markymark on Mar 10, 2019 15:32:50 GMT -5
Only if we take it at face value; what they're claiming is dumb, but TNA is owned by a TV company. It wouldn't be a stretch in my mind for them to have deleted the masters for more spiteful reasons after the Jarrett deal fell through, where they just didn't care about preserving the footage and decided to be dicks about it. "We deleted the masters in the natural course of business" is a nightmare sentence and it sounds like a load of horseshit on some levels. Yeah, this isn't the 70's and 80's were tape was expensive, bulky and you needed to care for it. EVERYTHING is digital and digital storage is unbelievably cheap and a TV Network should have a pretty damned huge file server that 16 like what 2 hour shows shouldn't even be a drop in their bucket. This was done out of incompetence or spite.
Probably the latter, due to him taking advantage of them(See the Broken Universe issues that had Reby ranting on twitter, Jarrett being drunk as hell at Triplemania and throwing tortillas to the crowd).
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Mar 10, 2019 17:19:09 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100 They have RDV money, not money money. Fixed that for you.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fingers on Mar 10, 2019 17:31:11 GMT -5
Only if we take it at face value; what they're claiming is dumb, but TNA is owned by a TV company. It wouldn't be a stretch in my mind for them to have deleted the masters for more spiteful reasons after the Jarrett deal fell through, where they just didn't care about preserving the footage and decided to be dicks about it. "We deleted the masters in the natural course of business" is a nightmare sentence and it sounds like a load of horseshit on some levels. Yeah, this isn't the 70's and 80's were tape was expensive, bulky and you needed to care for it. EVERYTHING is digital and digital storage is unbelievably cheap and a TV Network should have a pretty damned huge file server that 16 like what 2 hour shows shouldn't even be a drop in their bucket. This was done out of incompetence or spite. Yeah, this is pretty much where I stand too. Like, I'm down to clown Jarrett as much as the next person, but not in this situation. Deleting masters in an age where they're easier to store than ever is pure incompetence and Jarrett absolutely deserves compensation for this.
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Post by octopus on Mar 14, 2019 8:34:06 GMT -5
Jarrett will get compo at best, I don't think Anthem really care if they lose this because even if they lost, they know they're not paying more than what WCW was worth when they went under.
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Post by markymark on Mar 14, 2019 9:34:41 GMT -5
Jarrett will get compo at best, I don't think Anthem really care if they lose this because even if they lost, they know they're not paying more than what WCW was worth when they went under. If Anthem doesnt hold the rights of GFW then they have to pay to Jarrett, I agree with that.
Even though...
16hrs of Global Force Wrestling content worth = 5 million dollars
Countless hrs of WCW Television/PPV/Special content worth = 2 million dollars
Something is not right.........
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 18:03:26 GMT -5
I think what a lot of people don't realize is that the reason WCW came so cheap is because Time Warner just wanted to wash their hands of it and there weren't any other interested takers in light of it losing its TV deal because no one but WWE had the means to do anything with its assets; the Fusient deal that was in the works before that point was for $48 million.
It's an incredibly different world now, with streaming as well as much more accessible home video distribution, and while I have my doubts Jarrett actually could make millions off the GFW footage, it's a hell of a lot more likely than anyone who wasn't WWE being able to do it in 2001.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 18:15:34 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100 That's the entirety of Kongo Kong's contract!
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Post by Spider2024 on Mar 14, 2019 18:21:17 GMT -5
Oh for god's sake, a 4TB Hard drive is like $100 That's the entirety of Kongo Kong's contract! No for real, he got payment in the form a hard drive device, and nothing else.
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Post by markymark on Mar 14, 2019 19:57:20 GMT -5
I think what a lot of people don't realize is that the reason WCW came so cheap is because Time Warner just wanted to wash their hands of it and there weren't any other interested takers in light of it losing its TV deal because no one but WWE had the means to do anything with its assets; the Fusient deal that was in the works before that point was for $48 million. It's an incredibly different world now, with streaming as well as much more accessible home video distribution, and while I have my doubts Jarrett actually could make millions off the GFW footage, it's a hell of a lot more likely than anyone who wasn't WWE being able to do it in 2001. The average GFW episode according to Jarrett was like 300K which is larger than any LU, MLW and maybe ROH episode, there is something fishy there..
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Post by cjh on Mar 15, 2019 15:19:21 GMT -5
Reading some of the updates on this suit, if I'm understanding correctly, Jarrett merely licensed the GFW footage to Impact rather than outright selling it to them. If that's the case, I don't think they'd have the right to erase the masters.
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Post by markymark on Mar 15, 2019 15:40:19 GMT -5
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 15, 2019 15:47:43 GMT -5
I would laugh and laugh and laugh if at the end of all this, it turns out Jarrett messed up with the Trademarks for GFW and the footage in the same way he did when weaponising Impact against the Hardys and Anthem walk away with everything, including the rights to footage they no longer have, nor want.
Normally I'm all for wrestlers when they battle for their rights against promoters, but *bleep* Jarrett. Most of TNA's worst policies toward talent began under his watch and he tried to gut TNA to build up his own failed promotion in a way Hogan/Bischoff would have considered going a step too far so I have zero sympathy towards him in this.
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