Another day, another Nintendo copyright strike. This time, it's yet another YouTuber who felt the wrath of the Japan-based video game giant for uploading Nintendo music.
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According to Kotaku, YouTube channel DeoxysPrime has been forced to remove their entire library of Nintendo music after receiving more than 500 copyright strikes. This happened even if the channel itself was never hosting commercially-available albums, too. All of the music uploaded there were ripped directly off games, which includes Splatoon and Mario Kart 8, to name a few.
Here is what Deoxys had to say about the decision of pulling the gaming giant's music from their channel:
"Effectively immediately, I will be removing all Nintendo music from my channel. With 500+ claims and a dozen soundtracks blocked over the last week, it's pretty clear they don't want their music on YouTube. I'm sorry to everyone who enjoys their music but I don't have much choice."
Despite what happened, however, Deoxys made it clear that they have "no intention" of taking the channel down, alongside the rest of their non-Nintendo soundtracks. They also expressed frustration about the entire ordeal, but still respected the company's choice to not have their music on YouTube in any way, shape or form.
The DeoxysPrime channel is a pretty substantial one, so this isn't just some random YouTube channel uploading music from Nintendo games. The channel (which focuses on hosting music from video games) has around 165,000 subscribers. But instead of primarily hosting Nintendo content, their main focus is music from the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
This is also DeoxysPrime's second run-in with the Japanese game industry giant, it seems. According to GeekWire, the channel also received multiple copyright strikes for hosting music from games like Bayonetta 2, Splatoon 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles.
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Nintendo Copyright Strikes Vs YouTubers
While DeoxysPrime's run-in with Nintendo's copyright shenanigans can be quite annoying, the channel is only the latest in a line of YouTubers that have been on the receiving end of the strikes. Their 500+ strikes don't even come close to how many others have gotten from the company.
The channel GilvaSunner, according to VideoGamesChronicle, had the terrible distinction of receiving over 4,000 Nintendo copyright strikes. Yes, you read that right: 4,000, and that's not even counting 3,500 additional content blocks. In an announcement last February, GilvaSunner said they'll be forced to delete the channel with almost 500,000 subscribers due to the strikes.
But as bad (and perhaps overdone) as this might seem to some, whatever Nintendo is doing is within perfectly legal bounds. They are entitled by law to ask to remove content they don't like, as per YouTube channel Video Game Story Time:
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime even said that one of the main reasons they keep copyright-striking YouTubers is simple: they want to make sure that the content is "reflective" of what their franchises are. In other words, they can take down any content they might deem isn't accurate to what the IPs really stand for.
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Written by RJ Pierce