| bunchanumbers said: Believe it or not I agree. They make a product and they have the right to protect their product and they should stop all these youtube leeches making money on the developers hard work. You can claim that because you did some editing and commentary on top of a game that you are entitled to make money on it, but its not right. Those developers struggle, labor, and suffer for months or years to create a masterpiece out of ones and zeroes. If youtubers really cared about the games or developers like they claim they would be donating half of their advertising revenue to the developers. Remember Angry Joe doing his supposed stand against Nintendo? That was about protecting his profit margins. It had nothing to do with what he was claiming it was. |
What if Dell started taking profit margins because of YouTubers using their computers to record, edit and upload videos? You know, on top of charging money for their product, which once the money has passed over, means that the product belongs to the consumer in its entirety?
"If youtubers really cared about the games or developers like they claim they would be donating half of their advertising revenue to the developers."
Playing the games and uploading videos to YouTube is free advertising. Nobody watches PewDiePie because of the games he plays; they watch for his super-annoying personality (and, well it snowballed). But thanks to PewDiePie, small horror games and indies that would have never seen more than a sliver of daylight actually made a few more sales than they would have otherwise. In terms of money made, YouTube already takes 55% of advertising profit from every video. On top of that, nobody is leeching; it is a symbiotic relationship. Both parties are benefiting. Why do you think Call of Duty pays for YouTubers like Alia to fly to LA to play their games early? They wouldn't do it for nothing, and Alia wouldn't agree to it for nothing.
Video Games are different from music and movies, which I think have a right to be copyrighted and monetized on YouTube. You pay to watch movies or listen to music, and being on YouTube allows many to skip out on shelling the dollars. You pay to play video games, not watch them.
It may seem virtually harmless to many to have Nintendo (for the sake of familiarity) copyright and monetize content on YouTube, but I believe that is another step towards Corporate territory expansion. This is a Corporation jumping on a technological bandwagon, not protecting their "hard-earned money".
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