In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
In the wake of an enormous hype wave following the most recent The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Nintendo has seemingly ratched up the variety of rogue copyright claims it places out in opposition to content material creators on Youtube, and at the least one in all them is hitting again. In his newest video, Eric “PointCrow” Morino pleaded with Nintendo to go away his channel alone after it not too long ago issued dozens of extra claims in opposition to his movies.
“Please remove these strikes and claims or at least start a dialogue with us so we can all move forward with the excitement I’m sure you would love to see about your future games,” Morino stated in a video to Nintendo posted on YouTube on April 14 that he stated was vetted by his lawyer. The request comes after the Switch producer apparently doubled down on issuing copyright claims and strikes in opposition to Morino’s channel, rising the entire quantity to twenty-eight, together with ones in opposition to older movies that had nothing to do with Breath of the Wild, like one about Wii Sports.
Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Nintendo first started concentrating on the Zelda speedrunner’s YouTube channel on April 6 after he uploaded footage of a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he commissioned and launched to the general public. Despite making movies that includes problem runs and different modded content material for years, it gave the impression to be the primary time Nintendo signaled it took any form of problem with the content material. Morino posted about it on Twitter on the time, criticizing the transfer and calling on the writer to reverse its resolution.
He now says Nintendo has performed the alternative, continuing to copyright declare over 20 extra movies spanning his total content material making profession. While most of them included the phrase “mod” within the title, at the least one contained simply vanilla gameplay with commentary. “These takedowns may have started with modded content, but they’ve spiraled into something else entirely,” Morino stated in his newest video.
On April 23, one other Zelda Youtuber, Croton, stated 10 of their streams and two of their movies had been “nuked” from the platform. “No answers, no context, just a copyright removal,” they tweeted. “And one of these videos has literally nothing to do with mods and was simply a Zelda challenge run.”
In his personal video, Morino accuses Nintendo of flouting its content material creator pointers to focus on him, and defends his modded Breath of the Wild runs, which have collectively garnered tens of thousands and thousands of views and helped preserve pleasure round a recreation that’s now six years previous. “To be clear I have never encouraged piracy of Nintendo’s games,” he stated. “The mods I’ve commissioned are not being sold, and all of the code is custom, meaning they are free of Nintendo’s assets.”
At the precise time when many content material creators are gearing up for an enormous inflow of curiosity from followers and viewers forward of the discharge of Tears of the Kingdom subsequent month, Morino’s now weary of creating content material for the sport in any respect, lest the arbitrary copyright claims proceed. “This is a little scary because the precedent that they set with this case may apply heavily for their upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” he stated. “As per their decisions to take down challenge and gameplay videos alongside the modded content it will be difficult for any content creator to post creative concepts without having the fear of Nintendo exercising their copyright over video that is in line with their own policies.”
Morino initially deliberate to enchantment the copyright claims, defending his movies on honest use grounds, however he now says these authorized efforts might price thousands and thousands and will jeopardize the way forward for his over 1.6 million subscriber YouTube channel. He not too long ago tweeted, “it’s hard to become excited for Tears of the Kingdom when the Zelda community is being nuked off YouTube.”
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