YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
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YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
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Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#2Wow, managing to piss off both ends of the issue (rights holders and video creators) is pretty impressive on YouTube's part.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#3>>If you’re dependent on YouTube for making money from video content, that’s disastrous, as even a single strike against your YouTube account can limit the account’s functionality within the site and impact anything from the length of videos you’re able to upload to your ability to monetise those videos with advertising.
Always be very careful when your business depends on the free(AFAIK, uploading to youtube is free) services & regulations of some other company. I can't help but think of the stories on Facebook-platform/API dependency. That said, I still think it's bad how Google isn't a bit more careful when considering that, intentional or not, they now hold several people's livelihood in their hands. Semi-arbitrarily dropping sites' page-rank, marking sites as phishing attempts or messing with youtube-accounts' abilities to continue their business by some automation-script is kinda harsh. It's kinda like a guilty-until-proven-innocent thing where you just wake up one day and find your youtube-channel crippled. You're losing money while trying to contact Google and get everything straightened out. The fact that Google isn't exactly known for amazing customer service adds to the problem. I certainly don't expect Google to manually check all that content, but how about instead of immediate penalty... they send an email with a warning that action will be taken in 20 business days if alleged-offending content isn't removed. At least give the uploaders a chance to fix the issue or plan for an "outage" of sorts. Perhaps even for websites & youtube channels that are well known high-traffic & monetizing, Google makes sure to white-list them so they can never be auto-penalized without a human confirming. Instead, it just triggers an alert to all parties involved so people can look at it.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#4Wow, managing to piss off both ends of the issue (rights holders and video creators) is pretty impressive on YouTube's part.
Seems like they need to improve their tools to allow rightsholders to conveniently white-list their content as youtubable.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#5>>If you’re dependent on YouTube for making money from video content, that’s disastrous, as even a single strike against your YouTube account can limit the account’s functionality within the site and impact anything from the length of videos you’re able to upload to your ability to monetise those videos with advertising. Always be very careful when your business depends on the free(AFAIK, uploading to youtube is free…
Paying for the service won't protect you. Visa or whoever will happily cancel a paid merchant account.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#6What stands out most about this issue is the open-mindedness of the Video Games Industry. The fact that they've stood up for someone's ability to not only record their gameplay, but on top of that, make money from it just shows how understanding they are (unlike neighboring industries that take down amateur remixes from Soundcloud and YouTube).
They're one of the few industries that generally:
● Don't Sue Pirates
● Don't claim copyright infringement on uploaded video game soundtracks to YouTube or gh.ffshrine.org (except Square Enix because their Final Fantasy OST still sells big)
● Don't send DMCA notices to people who remix their content (make mods)
● Allow unofficial communities to sprout up using their IP's name in the domain name url
I'd say they're going above and beyond to support fair use & infringement in order to please customers, grow communities, and grow their fan base through crowdsourced content infringement. Genius I'd say.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#7What stands out most about this issue is the open-mindedness of the Video Games Industry. The fact that they've stood up for someone's ability to not only record their gameplay, but on top of that, make money from it just shows how understanding they are (unlike neighboring industries that take down amateur remixes from Soundcloud and YouTube). They're one of the few industries that generally: ● Don't Sue Pirates ● D…
The industry does have some of the nastiest DRM we've ever seen though.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#8I don't understand, can video game companies really claim copyright over gameplay videos? Or is this just a Youtube-specific thing?
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#9What stands out most about this issue is the open-mindedness of the Video Games Industry. The fact that they've stood up for someone's ability to not only record their gameplay, but on top of that, make money from it just shows how understanding they are (unlike neighboring industries that take down amateur remixes from Soundcloud and YouTube). They're one of the few industries that generally: ● Don't Sue Pirates ● D…
Don't claim copyright infringement on uploaded video game soundtracks to YouTube (except Square Enix because their Final Fantasy OST still sells big)
Because most video game music is crap, really. Of course, there are exceptions, but nothing that would really sell anyway if they were marketing it.
Don't send DMCA notices to people who remix their content (make mods)
Huh... you haven't heard about Nintendo I guess? They just closed the site of someone who made a Mario clone (a 20+ years old game) in the browser, and they also sued Great Giana Sisters in the 80s because it was too similar to Mario.
Allow unofficial communities to sprout up using their IP's name in the domain name url
I can't remember which site right now, but I clearly remember Sony or other big players making it difficult to use some of their brands as domain names.
It's clearly not as nice an industry as you seem to be considering it.
Re: YouTube Blocks Game Videos, Industry Offers Help
#10What stands out most about this issue is the open-mindedness of the Video Games Industry. The fact that they've stood up for someone's ability to not only record their gameplay, but on top of that, make money from it just shows how understanding they are (unlike neighboring industries that take down amateur remixes from Soundcloud and YouTube). They're one of the few industries that generally: ● Don't Sue Pirates ● D…
Don't claim copyright infringement on uploaded video game soundtracks to YouTube (except Square Enix because their Final Fantasy OST still sells big) Because most video game music is crap, really. Of course, there are exceptions, but nothing that would really sell anyway if they were marketing it. Don't send DMCA notices to people who remix their content (make mods) Huh... you haven't heard about Nintendo I guess? Th…
1) Are you really going to make a hot-air blanket statement like "Most video game music is crap"? You do realize that even mid-budget games like Resident Evil 5 & Remember Me (both with really good soundtracks) record using Hollywood sized orchestras.
2) A "CLONE" of a game is different. Especially when you clone an iconic game that Nintendo still sells.
It's clearly not as evil an industry as you seem to be considering it.