Scoobes said:
Dusk said:
Scoobes said:
Dusk said:
Intrinsic said:
And you fail to see the big picture. How much do you think Nintendo stands to make from youtubers showing parts of their game?
How much do you think they have to make from people buying a WiiU and games from having watched one of such videos?
What I am saying is simple, YouTube and someone playing my console is free marketing as far as I am concerned. I would rather have as many people see my games and hopefully end up buying my console, than they see more of my competitions games.
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I think it's you that fails to see the big picture. This is not hypotheticals. It's IP's used without consent, that is the bottom line. It's copywritten materials used without permission. You may own the material for use, but not for distrobution in any form.
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The same could be said of Sony, Microsoft or any big name publisher. Yet I'm not aware of any other publisher that has implemented a system like this. When youtube identified all these videos as copyrighted material, the big publishers asked video makers to contact them about any problems and they'd get them sorted (no financial penalty involved).
Nintendo are fully in their rights to introduce this system and to protect their IP. However, that doesn't mean it's a good idea, and the fact that other publishers haven't introduced this is telling. All Nintendo is achieving with this is to reduce the online "word of mouth" marketing that youtubers provide.
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Pretty sure MS and EA have actually. Not exactly the same, but quite close. With MS, with the exception of Youtube, content creators cannot make any money from it that uses any of MS's stuff and even allows MS to use this created content without consent. So if someone comes up with a great idea on a youtube video or anything like that, MS is fully able to take it and use it for thier own gain.
Give it time, more will follow suit.
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Err... no, that was very different and actually worse in many respects (assuming we're thinking of the same thing). EA and MS actually (quietly) paid youtubers to help promote their content. They didn't take any of the money away from youtubers... they added to the pot and bribed them, lol.
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It's a different approach to do the same thing. We are talking about different things though. Check out MS most recently updated youtube policies. Nintendo's program is a beta program that seems to be in an attempt to get more youtubers to feature NIntendo material and exclusivity but also allows for them to make some money through it without breaching any IP legal mumbo jumbo.
All of this stuff is going to be fairly big this year I think with all the new youtube policies and content OWNERS starting to have more ability to take back what is theirs.
