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Nintendo takes down 1300 uploads of game soundtracks from YouTube
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Doesn't mean you have to be an absolute dick even if you have the right to be it.
Ain't no one saying that it isn't in their right to do so, but the way they handle shit like this is ridiculous lol
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It really makes me wonder why Nintendo still hasn't created their own VEVO channel or addEd OSTs to music streaming services. Even Disney has the decency to do both.
They've had years and years to do this. They're just being horrendously stubborn about it. Those YouTube channels wouldn't even need to exist in the first place if Nintendo was forward thinking enough to meet this demand.
Nintendo continues to be the absolute worst about this, no surprise. Entire youtube channels have been deleted cause of them with no suitable replacements for no gain.
It is of course more complicated than what I said, but it isn't a myth.
Probably because the amount streaming services pay isn't worth it to Nintendo, who would rather sit on their music and guard it and save its value for some future endeavor. I wonder as well if the ability to parse numbers of listens (at least on Spotify) is too transparent for them (don't want people to see how many/few listens their IP produces).
Sucks.
Does Nintendo offer ways to legally listen to these tracks?
I know they're not on streaming services but even on iTunes I look up some Nintendo OSTs for purchase and they're not there. Besides Pokemon which I assume is cause the Pokemon Company handles that.
I know they're not on streaming services but even on iTunes I look up some Nintendo OSTs for purchase and they're not there. Besides Pokemon which I assume is cause the Pokemon Company handles that.
Hey thanks I hope you didn't trip rushing in to remind us.
We know.
But there's just plain being mean to your fans. This is the same as Toei being absolute bastards when it comes to fair use and nuking fan's videos and essays for using clips from the show. These videos are one of the essential pieces to the longevity of the community that keeps an IP beloved for years to come. Nintendo could take a page from Sega here and how they encourage and support Sonic fans for example.
No, it's absolutely a myth. You may be thinking of trademarks, but that really doesn't apply to things like musical works. The only recorded history of loss of trademarks due to lack of encforcement is products that have become generics, which isn't going to happen here. Nintendo might have had to worry about say, Nintendo becoming a generic word used for video game system, but they don't have to worry about Zelda trademarks because of a fangame (let alone music).
Nintendo bout to launch their own streaming service where you can pay to listen to their music in RealMedia format.
This doesn't even solve the problem of custom versions of the songs like extended loops. Even if they reuploaded, there's no way to get that kind of experience "officially".
