Nintendo and Youtube.

I wish I could explain it better, but unfortunately, I'm not smart enough.

Basically, it has to deal with the rights gained when buying software. You now own that specific software. You can do whatever you want with it, barring redistribution (as that's specifically against the law). When it comes to uploading videos of recorded footage onto Youtube, it's not against your inherited rights from buying the software in question, so long as it doesn't fall under the aforementioned circumstances.

Up until now, uploading YOUR footage of Nintendo software, with your own work put into it, with your own twist on the content in question is not against the law for making money off of it. Now that Nintendo has a copyright ID partnership with Youtube, it is now against their rules to make money off of Nintendo videos under certain parameters.

The issue with this is that it conflicts with a lot of peoples' livelihoods. Some people require that money earned from their hard work in order to continue content flow. Some others even require that money for their real lives. It's a big deal for some and it sucks majorly for others. Hardcore fans may still upload their videos, because money isn't really the most important part, but it's still a huge hit to those people.


Now, what I am in agreement with you on are those who say Nintendo is going to pay majorly for this, or those people who are saying they're no longer ever going to buy Nintendo software/hardware again because of this. Now, that is just plain moronic. The true fans will not be influenced to no longer support Nintendo over this. Those who do are shallow.

Well, now I understand where we disagree. In your interpretation, you are filming your software and that means it is yours and you can do what you want with it. The way I see it is you own a copy of their software, and the footage is your footage of their game. Everything you're showing is still their IP, and to use it for for-profit use is off-limits since you don't own that IP.

I guess I find it kind of hard to sympathize with most super-huge LPers because, well, it seems like they don't put a ton of effort into their LPs. The majority that I've seen are people that slap their talking over them playing a game with jokes that appeal to the lowest common denominator to get the most viewers. I'm not saying that every LPer is like this, but so many I've seen do this. I feel that anybody who cares little enough about their content to abandon it / never start it because it doesn't turn a profit didn't care very much in the first place!