DYKG's "Heroes of Hyrule" video about a cancelled DS Zelda taken down by DMCA from Nintendo.

Maximumbeans · Dec 8, 2022

How does such a massive company have such a petty perspective. It’s a fucking YouTube channel, just let it be.

WG481 · Dec 8, 2022

From copyright.gov,

Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.

Nintendo be trippin.

Maximumbeans said:
How does such a massive company have such a petty perspective. It’s a fucking YouTube channel, just let it be.

Nintendo will take down petty videos but not all of the porn of Mario.

SaberLilly · Dec 8, 2022

I'm not sure what to think, i mean its not DYKG leaked some uber top secret nintendo prototype game they plan on releasing in 2023, but on the other hand nintendo has been known to be super strict about keeping their cancelled stuff secret. I wonder if this game will pop up in the next Nintendo Gigaleak

Plazorn · Dec 8, 2022

Kind of took a while? The Nintendo Ninjas usually only take a few hours to find videos of this sort.

Super.Nova · Dec 8, 2022

Damn it!
I started watching the video, got busy and didn't continue watching!

raxadian · Dec 8, 2022

Considering all the others Nintendo videos they have, you can't blame a bot for this.

raging_chaos · Dec 9, 2022

You have to be creative with your video title. "Take this down, Nintendo. I dare you." worked for Linus even though every other "Switch on Steam Deck" video has been DMCA'd.

DarkCoffe64 · Dec 9, 2022

Hope cancertendo ends up getting some other gigaleak, but this time maybe unearthing some dirty shit that gets them under fire or something.
Fucking pricks.

ChiefReginod · Dec 9, 2022

This is a cynical take, but I wouldn't put it past any big youtuber to purposely get a video taken down for the free publicity. For example, by not muting the game music.

urbanman2004 · Dec 9, 2022

Got d@mn, this version of Ninty are a bunch of douche bag dick wad twats. Send in the asteroid

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PopcornSweetie · Dec 9, 2022

M4x1mumReZ said:
Now you can see it again thanks to Archive for existing.

Normally, i watch DYKG episodes only once.

subcon959 · Dec 9, 2022

Easy way to fix this.. just need Elon to buy YouTube and then take NoA to court lol

andyhappypants · Dec 9, 2022

This is why I will continue to pirate all my Nintendo games. F#ck Nintendo, they should be putting their energy into fixing Pokemon sca/vi instead of these pointless takedowns.

ut2k4master · Dec 9, 2022

andyhappypants said:
This is why I will continue to pirate all my Nintendo games. F#ck Nintendo, they should be putting their energy into fixing Pokemon sca/vi instead of these pointless takedowns.

sure, whatever excuse you need

Chris_Dai_Gyakuten_Saiban · Dec 9, 2022

randy_w said:
Lmao didn’t Nintendo just sent a dmca notice to a cover art website last week? Nice work nintendo, as always.

It was Steam DB I believe and if I am not mistaken it had something to do with unofficial box art covers for Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of The Wild. It's weird that Nintendo would do that, but given they like do take down almost everything in sight, nothing surprises me.

mituzora · Dec 9, 2022

raging_chaos said:
You have to be creative with your video title. "Take this down, Nintendo. I dare you." worked for Linus even though every other "Switch on Steam Deck" video has been DMCA'd.

Though it's nice to think it was the video title actively calling out Nintendo, This was likely due to LMG having enough money to fight Nintendo over false DMCA claims.

Nintendo likes to bully all of the small creators; don't really see them going after those big youtubers

raging_chaos · Dec 9, 2022

mituzora said:
Though it's nice to think it was the video title actively calling out Nintendo, This was likely due to LMG having enough money to fight Nintendo over false DMCA claims.

I was just being cheeky, the reason their video remains probably has to do with the fact they blurred out all gameplay and don't show any artwork or assets. Being Canadian based probably adds another layer to the equation. What I'm surprised at is that Nintendo didn't nuke any of their other videos showing their IP, makes you wonder why this specific one was targeted when it wasn't even a released game they were talking about.

kiaghi7 · Dec 10, 2022

While Nintendo deserves excoriation for this completely unnecessary attack on a video that's nothing but a history of a game that never was... It's really Youtube/Google who deserve by far the most hate for this, because it's their completely arbitrary and capricious "enforcement" of their complete disregard for any form of process or allowing the end-user to defend themselves in any way, demonstrate their position, and ultimately prove that their video is well within fair-use provisions.
Youtube/Google have a thoroughly documented history of taking a completely "scorched earth" approach to any such issues and leaving the creator of the video out in the cold more often than not siding with the copyright trolls who quite often have no legitimate claim to ownership of anything in the video.

tsam2 · Dec 10, 2022

Put the blame on stupid shareholders. Disney is also the same story. 2010, a shareholder asks Iwata:
"In connection with Nintendo's basic strategy of gaming population expansion, I would like to ask about the handling of fan activities and intellectual properties. Recently, there are many fan magazines, original short movies, music bands, cosplay activities, websites, orchestras and so on, based on Nintendo's titles. If these activities threaten Nintendo's intellectual properties or licenses, will Nintendo crack down on them aggressively, or just view them as fan activities? If Nintendo has any policies, please let us know"

Iwata's reply:
"...of course, we cannot say that we can give tacit approval to any and all the activities which threaten our intellectual properties. But on the other hand, it would not be appropriate if we treated people who did something based on affection for Nintendo, as criminals..."

2014 another one:
"I do not understand video games and I even feel angry because, at Nintendo’s shareholders’ meetings, the shareholders always discuss things relating to video games or such childish topics as what the future of video games should be...I hope that Nintendo’s shareholders’ meeting will become an opportunity where the shareholders discuss the company’s business operations from the viewpoints of capital gain and dividend"

The CEOs that successed Iwata are "pure" CEOs, worked in banks etc. So, they don't understand completely the world of gaming and they don't want to dissatisfy the investors whose only concern is profit and how to milk even the last drop of the cow.

mituzora · Dec 10, 2022

raging_chaos said:
I was just being cheeky, the reason their video remains probably has to do with the fact they blurred out all gameplay and don't show any artwork or assets. Being Canadian based probably adds another layer to the equation. What I'm surprised at is that Nintendo didn't nuke any of their other videos showing their IP, makes you wonder why this specific one was targeted when it wasn't even a released game they were talking about.

Lol, I figured as much. didn't mean to come off as super serious or anything.

You do bring up a good point though, I didn't even think about the whole Canadian thing, but I don't think that would matter as Youtube is a US company subject to US copyright law. I could be very wrong on that though and can only speak from the position of a US citizen and I have no clue if YouTube is treated differently in different countries.
I can guarantee you that it has to do with them covering an unreleased game. They're not super heavy-handed on reviews as much as they used to be, but god forbid you start talking about homebrew and piracy and they'll find anything they can to take your video down.
It's okay, Nintendo might learn when they stop getting coverage of their devices/games.

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