Friday, December 13, 2013

YouTube Wrecking Gamers Careers (Did We Just Get Scroogle?)

With YouTube taking down gamers video game footage, I have to wonder if we just got scroogled. YouTube's auto bots, have been taking down gamers video game footage due to copyrights issues, issues that most game developers don't even want to claim. Let's play videos, walkthroughs, and hints and tips videos all help sale video games. When I'm interested in a game but I'm still on the fence, I watch let's play videos or walkthroughs. They help me closed the deal on if I'm either going to get the game or if I'm going to wait til later to pick it up, if at all. It is a great way for gamers to be honest about their options of a game while allowing other gamers to see the game. Its almost like free press for game developers, except for the YouTubers who receive money for having commercials on their videos. Which is YouTube's big gripe, gamers making a profit off of showing their gameplay and it coming back, in the frame of a lawsuit, to bait YouTube in the butt. Great game companies like Ubisoft, Capcom, Blizzard, Deep Silver, and others have rallied around their gamers, but I don't see how they are going to keep that up since there is no way for them to keep reinstating every YouTuber's claim, there is just too many. Many YouTubers livelihood depend on ad revenues and +boogie2988 made a great video explaining that and telling off other YouTubers for being insensitive to that point. I understand YouTube's point of view, they have several law suits against them from the music industry for YouTubers making money off of music videos, and this is there way of preventing it from happening with the gaming industry. But it is not the same thing. Someone uploading a music video and basically pirating a music artist work is different then videogame commentary, in which you have to create content on top of content( game footage) , plus edit the video, and if they want to grow your audience then the commentary has to be original on top of everything else. YouTube what I'm trying to say is stop scroogling gameplay videos and find a way to fix your new copyright policy. Right now it is impossible for any up and coming game review, or let's play character to come out. I know bigger characters like +LevelCapGaming+AngryJoeShow , +Matimi0 and others already have a base audience that will continually coming back, to watch anything that they put up, even vlog, while YouTube finds a way to calm down there auto bots and this ID content algorithm (and I'm not saying that those personalities above are not going through hardships either) But bigger channels unusually have some contacts within the industry, so at least some of there video contact can get un-flagged a little quicker then someone else who knows no one. Google/YouTube I know you can fix this, or make a better policy so user's videos aren't being taken over by anyone who wants to turn in a claim, to claim it.

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