Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

[Tellis]

Something important you guys aren't getting at (that TotalBiscuit brought up in his video) is that, regardless of whether you or Nintendo thinks people should be making money off Let's Plays or not, regardless of the legality of either side's actions, there's a MASSIVE problem with Nintendo's METHODS in all of this.

Due to content matching being as inaccurate as it is, there has already been journalistic content that's been flagged, rerouting the income stream of a video that someone made FOR THEIR JOB. Not to entertain, not to build their web personality, but to provide coverage and information on a game that they/their company was given permission BY NINTENDO to use as supplemental information/graphics/whatever. And now those people are robbed of what may well be their primary source of income.

No matter your stance on whether or not LPs should be making money or not, supporting this specific scenario just gives Nintendo even more room to control shit that isn't theirs. Fine, whatever MAYBE LPers shouldn't be making money off of their videos (I argue they should but that's not my point), but that still does not mean that this is okay by any means.


Oh, and people who try to decide for other people what does and doesn't constitute a "real job"? Fuck that noise.