Pewdiepie Complains against Nintendo Youtube Policy

[Dusk]

Scoobes said:

Dusk said:

Scoobes said:

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. 

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.

I had a quick look and the MS policies look like business as usual from what I can tell. Revenue from Youtube and Twitch ads are excluded so youtubers still get to keep 100% of the ad revenue generated. The rest looks like obvious IP protection (no reverse engineering, no offensive content) that would have been in place before, even if not explicitly stated.

For most, I don't think much is going to change. I don't think most publishers will want to interfere too much with "word of mouth" advertising.

I think you missed the part where if youtubers use anything from MS IP's then MS has the ability to use that content as their own. So if it's ideas, reviews, anything that is even slightly related they can fully take it. Sure MS isn't charing anything for the use, except anything that might come from it in the future. So if someone comes up with a great idea for a new franchise or gameplay mechanic they can steal it without reprocussions from the youtuber. Not too shabby on MS's end. It has also made any private sites that have add revenue that uses MS IP's an offence. That have just put that youtuber in a 4x4 cell.

You are right though, it is business as usual.It's just a different tactic.