VGEsoterica
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Five months ago I did a video talking about Nintendo DCMA'ing Valve and the Dolphin devs about Dolphin being available in the Steam Store...and while the Dolphin devs def poked the bear with what they were up to I said that I def felt Nintendo was going to go after emulation in a big way sometime in the future. Well at least they waited five months.
Their new "content guidelines" are nothing short of 10/10 level stupid; would kill all speedruns with no commentary, would kill any historical analysis of the games, would prevent any footage not from Nintendo licensed hardware from appearing anywhere online, etc etc etc. And you thought Microsoft was being crappy by locking out non-approved USB controllers. Nintendo went for the GOLD with this
It's so hard to enjoy Nintendo GAMES when you realize the Nintendo COMPANY has such wildly backwards thinking all the time. And before you ask I have a background in Copyright / IP and have dealt with it extensively in my career...and none of these guidelines seem enforceable whatsoever...but that wont stop Nintendo from leaning on every company to remove anything they dislike because the golden rule applies...."he who has all the gold makes the rules"
Their new "content guidelines" are nothing short of 10/10 level stupid; would kill all speedruns with no commentary, would kill any historical analysis of the games, would prevent any footage not from Nintendo licensed hardware from appearing anywhere online, etc etc etc. And you thought Microsoft was being crappy by locking out non-approved USB controllers. Nintendo went for the GOLD with this
It's so hard to enjoy Nintendo GAMES when you realize the Nintendo COMPANY has such wildly backwards thinking all the time. And before you ask I have a background in Copyright / IP and have dealt with it extensively in my career...and none of these guidelines seem enforceable whatsoever...but that wont stop Nintendo from leaning on every company to remove anything they dislike because the golden rule applies...."he who has all the gold makes the rules"