Nintendo Takes Money from Lets Players

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http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/nintendo-takes-legal-action-against-its-own-community-claims-rights-over-yo

Apparently Nintendo is getting all money made off of lets plays of Nintendo games.

Nintendo is using Youtube's Content ID system to make this happen. The service searches Youtube for video or audio that matches a company's content, and then gives them control over that Youtube submission. “Identify user-uploaded videos comprised entirely OR partially of their content, and choose, in advance, what they want to happen when those videos are found,” the official page states. “Make money from them. Get stats on them. Or block them from YouTube altogether.”
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Nintendo can make money off of these videos, see their stats and even block them altogether if they want.

I recommend reading the article, it isn't actually that long and i can't summarize shit for my life.


This pisses me off. A lot. Over the past few years i have slowly started to dislike Nintendo for some of their (IMO) poor choices, but this just pushes it over the fucking edge. This is ridiculous.

Discuss. (Would this topic fit better in Entertainment and Media? I wasn't sure.)
 
How much revenue do people doing Let's Plays even get from YouTube videos? It could just be my ignorance, but I'm not really seeing the issue with this.
 
Mario4Ever said:
How much revenue do people doing Let's Plays even get from YouTube videos? It could just be my ignorance, but I'm not really seeing the issue with this.
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from article said:
Zack Scott, who blew the whistle on Nintendo's actions has numerous LP videos of Nintendo games that top 100,000 views and many that top 300,000. That revenue isn't likely to be of much use to a major corporation like Nintendo, but it can be mean much to the creators of Let's Play videos.
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They don't make a ton of money, but it does add up quite nicely for popular youtubers that get a lot of views.
 
So, it is their games. If they didn't make them, the lets plays and walkthroughs of the games wouldn't have existed so I don't see this as a bad thing.
 
^if ibm hadn't designed the wii u's cpu, or if ati hadn't designed its gpu, or if the sd card association hadn't standardized sd cards, the wii u wouldn't exist. so i don't see it as a bad thing if you just don't pay nintendo for your wii u, and give the money to those other people instead
 
Bulbasaur said:
^if ibm hadn't designed the wii u's cpu, or if ati hadn't designed its gpu, or if the sd card association hadn't standardized sd cards, the wii u wouldn't exist. so i don't see it as a bad thing if you just don't pay nintendo for your wii u, and give the money to those other people instead
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Correct grammar and usage please.
 
chillv said:
Bulbasaur said:
^if ibm hadn't designed the wii u's cpu, or if ati hadn't designed its gpu, or if the sd card association hadn't standardized sd cards, the wii u wouldn't exist. so i don't see it as a bad thing if you just don't pay nintendo for your wii u, and give the money to those other people instead
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Correct grammar and usage please.
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Don't minimod please.
 
"oh shit, he pointed out that my argument is nonsense. i better whine about grammar!!"

if that's the best you can offer, get out
 
Morgan said:
Don't minimod please.
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No really, I wasn't trying to minimod. I legitimately couldn't understand what he was saying.
 
chillv said:
Morgan said:
Don't minimod please.
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No really, I wasn't trying to minimod. I legitimately couldn't understand what he was saying.
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the only thing he did was not capitalize letters

but here you go

"If IBM hadn't designed the Wii U's CPU, or if ATI hadn't designed its GPU, or if the SD card association hadn't standardized SD cards, the Wii U wouldn't exist. So I don't see it as a bad thing if you just don't pay Nintendo for your Wii U, and give the money to those other people instead."
 
chillv said:
Morgan said:
Don't minimod please.
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No really, I wasn't trying to minimod. I legitimately couldn't understand what he was saying.
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If you are physically unable to understand anyone if there's any bit of incorrect grammar, there is absolutely no way that you will ever get anywhere in your life.

On the other hand, if you're just being stuck-up for the sake of showing off your grammar superiority, you're also going to have absolutely no chance at getting anywhere in your life. I suggest you ease up on the snootiness.