Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

[Koh]

Ah, the "every LP is different" argument shows itself again~

Here's the deal. Each run may be done uniquely, but the game itself isn't dynamic. It will always be "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" or whatever else. No matter how you run through it, everything is already coded and set in place, so therefore if you've seen the game once, you've seen it a million times. Sure, a person might glitch their way through while someone else hacks their way through, but in the end, they're going through the same hardcoded world. Watching a game isn't the same experience as playing it for yourself, I agree, however, that doesn't change the fact that you're still showing pretty much all of the content of a product people would otherwise have to PAY FOR themselves to see. Doing it for free is one thing, but trying to make money off of that is where things really get in hot water, hence problems like this. This is why you need to get a license and/or contract agreement with whatever company before trying to make money off of them in any way, whether via ads or whatever else, otherwise you put yourself in plenty of legal risk, as shown on Youtube's monetization agreement page, which I quoted previously.