A Little Perspective on YouTube Gaming Content Creation

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vivster said:

A couple of things wrong in this post.

 1. You really think Pewdiepie cares about the 10s of dollars he would not be getting from his non existent Nintendo videos? He's just calling out Nintendo for doing something stupid. Many popular youtubers have done so. And if you actually heard what he said, you would know that he was generally speaking and not for himself.

 2. MS and Sony are not cracking down on youtubers. As least not as hard as Nintendo. They know it's stupid(or at least I hope so). If you followed a few youtubers who had to deal with takedown notices and fought against them you would've seen how they all won in the end because they were in the right. Because their works are transformative, which is the basis for fair use.

3. A notice in front of every Nintendo video like that is a death sentence for any unbiased youtuber. It basically says: "I'm Nintendo's bitch but I'm still totally unbiased even though I'm not paying money to any other game developer out there".

4. This is not normal practice as I pointed out. Video games are an entirely different medium from music or film and as such shouldn't be treated the same way.

Last but not least, nobody is calling out Nintendo for doing something unlawful. It's just incredibly stupid. No one who even went against popular youtubers won in the end. All those hundreds of yens they will be making with this deal won't upset the massive negative publicity and even worse, the missing positive publicity.

To answer a few of your points:

1. That's the whole point: his whole reason for not supporting it IS because of how little money it's worth based on their so-called "policy".  What an odd thing to care about in his situation (and yes, I am well aware of his "statement").  If a person is becoming a YouTuber for the sole purpose of getting paid to play games, they are missing the entire point of the passion of gaming.

2. Again, not Nintendo, YouTube is doing the cracking down because they are following proper content copyright policies.  Another misplaced blame people keep placing on Nintendo when YouTube is acting on its own to protect the content of various entities through their detection bots.  All they need is the data mine either from a verified channel or from the entity itself, and the bots will start auto-matching pixels and sound waves.

3. You assume people are a lot dumber than they really are: bias isn't about what it says in the video description (ESPECIALLY if you consider that I quoted word-for-word above what is required; seeing bias in that is a fanboy reaction).  People will detect bias based on what you post and how you handle it.  It's retarded to think a licensing term is anything but legality.  It's ironic that people are lambasting Nintendo while the other developers (as mentioned) spend MONEY incentivizing these YouTubers (and web sites as well) to cover their games.  The other companies give money to people through monetization to cover their stuff and encourage it.  You want to talk about bias, you have the exactly wrong angle.  Nintendo is simply joining this, but again, in a pretty different manner of doing so that skips the professional necessity of contacting the publisher for licensing agreements.

4. Uhm, yes, entities protecting their copyrights is normal practice in every industry everywhere.  Videogames are NOT an exception like people want to pretend they are.  If Nintendo chooses to protect their content, they are entitled to do so, and it is not "stupid".  Disagreeing with it is one thing, but mocking it is another when many don't even understand how copyrights work.