Earlier this month, speedrunner Alex “PangaeaPanga” tweeted that his YouTube channel had been “wrecked.” Taking a closer look, I noted that even the popular video titled Item Abuse 3—which was billed as the “hardest Super Mario World level ever”—was taken down from the service after accruing over a million views. Alex says there’s a reason for that: Nintendo is becoming more aggressive on YouTube when it comes to tool-assisted speedruns (or, in other words, playthroughs of Mario games that utilize emulators.)
To wit, other Super Mario fans on TAS forums are noting that some of their favorite Super Mario speedrun videos around the web are disappearing, and other tool-assisted content creators say they’re being forced to take down their videos, too:
I do not understand why they ASK me to delete the videos in the email, seeing as they already did by force
— Switchpalacecorner (@SwitchPcorner) September 9, 2015
They are doing this probably due to SMM's release. Still though... I hope Nintendo will stop with all this crap one day.
Article: http://kotaku.com/creator-of-hardest-super-mario-world-level-ever-says-co-1729624158?hipra_discussion_redesign=on&utm_expid=66866090-52.r5txldOmRkqnbJxnyozIeA.2
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