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Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated (www.timeextension.com)

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 106 points 2 weeks ago

Go for it, Nintendo. Emulation has already been proven in courts to not be sufficient evidence for wrongdoing. Also:

However, its latest move feels particularly heavy-handed, as it has issued a copyright strike against a YouTube channel that reviews emulation handhelds.

Go fuck yourself. I hope you get hit with an anti-SLAPP across your litigious faces.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 49 points 2 weeks ago

The youtube channel would first need to be willing to take Nintendo to court.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 16 points 2 weeks ago

Naturally. I can hope for it, but I would never expect them to counter-sue. They're the person harmed, so they get to decide what justice looks like for them, and sometimes people just want to go back to normal.

Sanctions are really the only thing the judge has at their disposal, and I doubt Nintendo's lawyers are dumb enough to get sanctioned.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

This is not about the legality of emulation, unfortunately, but about whether people have the rights to publish lets plays without a license.

Many suits in the gaming industry see lets plays as theft. They see people making money using their games and believe lets players should have to pay to license thst content, and that they should have the right to revoke that license if they don't like what people are saying about or doimg with their games.

I work in the industry, and I know people who work or who have worked at studios owned by every major punlisher in the west. This is a thing they all habe someone of import chomping at the bit for.

It's just that none of them want to be the one singled out as the first or only one attacking lets plays. Nor to be the one that shoulders the costs of having their position challenged in court.

[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

From the article it sounded like they were doing reviews, not let's plays. Reviews are inherently and substantially more transformative. They're not merely appending the content as it is played. They're supporting their assessments and reasoning with footage and proof.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just to be clear, publishers don't like reviewers, either. They're seen as gatekeepers of audiences and people to be managed and bribed, and that means keeping the reviewer market small. They want reviewers to be PR people with a fascade of being impartial, and few enough to count on one hand.

This is also somwthing that's happening, then, because Nintendo sees a pathway to victory. Not only are their games licensed only for their own hardware, but they can claim the reviews are misleading and invalid because the games aren't designed to run on the platforms they're beinf reviewed on.

Like, none of this is Nintendo coming for your emulation catalogue. It's them coming for people trying to generate an income from their games. And all of the big publishers are going to line up behind them on this, because they also hate anyone who's making coin using their creation.

That's capitalism. That's what it means for something to be capital, and to own it. It's what owning the means of production is all about.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 38 points 2 weeks ago

Nintendo:

MOAR! MOAR! MOOOAAARRR! IT IS NEVER ENOUGH!

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 36 points 2 weeks ago

"well will not rerelease these games, and no you cannot play them any other way"

[-] Coskii 30 points 2 weeks ago

Oh. Joy. I am certain the Mario odyssey modders who have been showcasing hide and seek along with prop hunt as ways to play the game with friends after enjoying the official experience will appreciate their hard work being flagged and demonitized.

Can't wait for Nintendo to go after the romhackers after this, and eventually cleanse all of the internet of their IP, causing people to just not know or care about their IPs anymore. Please Nintendo, figuratively shoot yourself in the face more.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

I thiiiink they're modding the game but still playing on official hardware, so they might be in the clear for now (until Nintendo goes further)

[-] Coskii 2 points 2 weeks ago

I suppose that do have that plausible deniability for now, though I know at least one of them isn't using official Nintendo hardware. Conveniently the same one who "moved to New Zealand" a day before totk came out as they could play on stream 'legally' a day early.

[-] Sebastrion@leminal.space 21 points 2 weeks ago

Damn... Seeing the Ayaneo Flip DS in the picture, I just wanna say that I love that thing. (But its very expensive). It's perfect for DS, 3DS, WiiU and most Switch games.

[-] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

Oh nice, I'll have to go check that out. Thank you Nintendo for making me aware of this!

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Starting at $889 oof. But yeah looks amazing

[-] J4g2F@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Damm, for that price you can buy a ds, 3ds, Wii u and a switch (V1) and have money to spare.

[-] princessnorah 1 points 2 weeks ago

And none of those can play x86 games? It's a similar price to a Lenovo Legion Go, with similar hardware specs (apart from the second screen).

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

Is this news? Thought this was everyday

[-] Auster@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

[Copypasta of the other repost] While I know the situation described in the article can set a precedent, the title feels misleading at best, given the article describes a single case, and not (yet) a widespread practice.