BasilZero said:
kain_kusanagi said:
BasilZero said:
Its fair imo, people are making money off just playing video games lol. Either ways, I'm 50/50 on the situation but what bothers me the most is people who are doing it for free are being blamed as well.
If they upload the videos for free, that is understandable, but because of people who make money, people who upload videos without having Adsense on or any partnership are getting tagged by YouTube's copyright scanners >.>.
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It doesn't matter if you are making money or not.
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Well I dont agree with that (along with pretty much the majority of the YouTube Community) and I'm pretty sure it does matter when it comes to the fact whether you are making $$$$ or not: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138161
From that, it all leads to monetization issue which seems to be the main reason why companies like MS are trying to bypass the "Fair Use" argument. There's tons of content from big YouTubers who have thousands of subscribers and have millions of views who dont make money AT ALL such as this guy (4000+ videos): http://www.youtube.com/user/cubex55
If you want to punish people, punish groups like Machinima, TheGameStation, IGN, GameSpot and Full Screen for paying those people uploading those videos through their channels.
I still think it should be allowed as long as the uploader isnt making any money, it pretty much is free advertisement for them. Honestly the only companies (from what I know so far) that seem to have a problem with people uploading any videos at all are mostly the western companies:
-EA
-Microsoft
-Sony's Western companies (i.e. Santa Monica)
-Rockstar
-Ubisoft
-Atari
Valve doesnt care either way (their actually promoting people to make videos through one of their programs), Bethseda doesnt care (as long as you dont monetize your videos), and pretty much 90% of the Japanese companies dont care (mostly depending on the content - i.e. recent games like FFXIII and RE5/6 arent allowed they get flagged).
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Microsoft doesn't care as long as said youtuber doesn't make any money off of it. Microsoft said that they love watching and spotlighting Halo machinimas and videos, they just don't think it is right for people to make money off of their content. However, if you make videos with no intentions of being paid, then you can continue to make videos.
EA on the other hand is taking the money from youtubers
