2013-05-17, 08:11 PM
Link Wrote:Well, not quite. There's a difference between the actual software and footage of a software. See, Youtube calculates the difference as well. It's not like you can put a video up on Youtube and tell it to monetize and it puts up ads instantly without outside confirmation. When you're partnered with Youtube/Adsense, Youtube's system scans your video(s) for any kind of audio or video that goes against their policies. They check for copyright infringement and all sorts of things. They can catch the slightest fart in the wind in your video and if it's to the tune of a copyrighted song, you're declined monetization for that video. However, they allow video game videos to be monetized. If video games were against their monetization policies, they wouldn't allow those to go through at all. They'd be blocked at the checking process.
I can't disagree with you here, though I've never been one to watch Let's Plays myself.
Well, the IP holders have to request for their content IDs to be matched before YouTube will do anything. For example, I watched a FF13-2 LP where the LPer had to scramble the video on youtube in videos with an ending scene or YouTube would recognize that it matched SE's content and then remove the video. There's far too much video uploaded to manually scan through all of it, so while their policy exists they have a hard time enforcing it. They would have to find content IDs for every piece of art or music in every game to fully enforce it, so instead they just wait until a company requests they match content IDs and they oblige. Essentially, a company's consent is implied until it isn't.