Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

[Kriven]

This is so incredibly ignorant and one-sided I'm not sure spending the time to explain why this is inaccurate would have any affect.

I'm sorry you feel that way, but that's literally all I'm seeing coming from advocates of Nintendo's decision at this point. I haven't seen a single argument in a day and a half that was anything other than that.

Probably because all of the better arguments have already been made. All of the arguments have been made. There has not been a progress in the discussion on this topic at all for about a page. It's the same back and forth again and again. There really isn't anything left to discuss on a moral or legal front, because the topic of legality is cut and dry:

Whether it's legal or not (on the copyright front it's legal, on the trademark front it is not)

One side will say "Yeah, but the commentary and editing, and the fact that they've legally created a new derivative work that doesn't illegally compete with or devalue the original and they are legally obliged to profit from it."

The other side will say "No, because Nintendo made their source material."

And it will be rehashed and rewashed.

The only debate left is whether or not Nintendo will really profit from this, whether it could potentially harm that company, and whether or not this will be a boon to Let's Players because of the potentially for now-authorized Let's Play production without the fear of YouTube striking the account, and whether or not the created potential for audience-grabs with shows which benefit Nintendo will balance out enough to not send some people into the streets.

Unfortunately, nobody is addressing that, because we're all too hung up on our feels to discuss the effects the decision will have. Neither side is budging, neither is producing any debatable point. Nothing mentioned in the past page has been anything but opinion, and not only that, but the same opinion by the same users.

I'm also getting a little tired of hearing people refer to an entire group of content creators as scum.

If I'm totally off base and you lot have a point that doesn't boil down to the exaggerated ballfit I spewed earlier, then you need to start making it better, because that's all I'm seeing.