Zelda YouTuber speaks out against Nintendo after Breath of the Wild video takedowns
The battle continues
Last week, Nintendo demonetized several videos from YouTuber PointCrow’s channel. These videos featured a custom The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod. (You can read more details about this original occurrence here.) Now, PointCrow has responded with a full length video, embedded above.
In the video, PointCrow reads from a statement that his lawyer helped him prepare, defending himself against Nintendo’s actions. He emphasizes that he does not encourage piracy, that the mods he showcases are not for sale, as well as the fact that some videos which didn’t feature mods at all were still affected. He goes on to discuss other YouTubers like Croton who experienced similar takedowns and copyright strikes in the recent past. Finally, he gives a detailed analysis of Nintendo’s own guidelines for what types of videos are acceptable and why he believes he should fall into that category.
PointCrow hopes that Nintendo will reverse course, or else he may “move away from this kind of content”. Could his outcry have an effect on Nintendo’s decisions? That’s probably a long shot, but it could very well have an effect on the types of content YouTubers create for Nintendo’s games in the future.
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red dragon
Making content with a video game is one thing. Making a mod of a console game. Then trying to monetize it... I can see why Nintendo wouldn't want that.
red dragon
1y agoMaking content with a video game is one thing. Making a mod of a console game. Then trying to monetize it... I can see why Nintendo wouldn't want that.
ngamer01
1y agoThis is probably the false flagger that striked before. Discostew of Nintendo Life posted this in the replies over there:
"The list shows "Claimed by Nintendo USA" and "Nintendo JP". Last I checked, Nintendo used IDs such as "Nintendo of America Inc" and other more unique/descriptive IDs. I think PointCrow and others got targeted by trolls, much like some from a few weeks ago got hit by someone using the ID "Nintendo"."
riftsilver
1y agoI'm not saying Nintendo is entirely in the right here, but modded games can influence piracy, especially those that involve emulation.
A lot of the mods are required to be used with something like Cemu, which requires a copy of the game dumped, and I'd bet less than 5% of the people who use Cemu to play their games actually bother to rip their own copy. So they turn to piracy sources, and where piracy is concerned people usually are able to justify all sorts of things in the long term.
There are all sorts of legal grey areas and the like to talk about, but it isn't hard to see why Nintendo doesn't like content like this to be distributed.
ninjablaze
1y ago"He emphasizes that he does not encourage piracy"
lmao. showcasing (and paying bounties to influence the creation of) mods to their game that can only be accessed by hacking your Switch (or even more likely not even using a switch at all and using an emulator on your PC which is even worse) and playing on a modded (non paid for) copy of the game is 100% encouraging piracy.
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