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After hacking Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. edition Game & Watch, showing how to do so, and even getting other games to run on it--DOOM among them, YouTuber stacksmashing has found some of their tutorials removed from the site. Two of the user's videos involving hacking the system were taken down from YouTube via copyright claims from Nintendo. Stacksmashing decided to fire back at Nintendo, by disputing the claims, and in the meantime, uploading highly edited video where he pokes fun at the company for going after his content. He plans to re-upload the removed videos in the future by blurring out any official gameplay footage, which according to the copyright claim, is the "reason" they were taken down.

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well i guess other companies now have rights, based on these precedents.

you play guitar on a Gibson? Gibson owns that music now
you make food with kitchen aid products? they now own your video where you made food with their products
used a snap-on wrench in that car fix video? you just put money in snap-ons pocket, they own it
oh you edited that video on windows? Bill Gates owns it now.


seriously where does the line end here? he made a one time, $50 purchase with no legal or financial ramifications for future purchases. legally, they own the hardware now, they are "free" to do what they want with it.

welcome to fascism
 
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VashTS said:
well i guess other companies now have rights, based on these precedents.

you play guitar on a Gibson? Gibson owns that music now
you make food with kitchen aid products? they now own your video where you made food with their products
used a snap-on wrench in that car fix video? you just put money in snap-ons pocket, they own it
oh you edited that video on windows? Bill Gates owns it now.


seriously where does the line end here? he made a one time, $50 purchase with no legal or financial ramifications for future purchases. legally, they own the hardware now, they are "free" to do what they want with it.

welcome to fascism
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that is not the argument here.
the music, characters, scenarios etc of nintendo games are their property.
based on that, their aggressive us lawyers file claim after claim.
'nintendo' likely doesn't know what exactly they're doing here and they don't care much either. 'protect the copyrights and combat piracy' os probably the only directive they've ever sent across the pond.
the lawyers appear effective enough, so they keep getting paid and keep doing what they do.


like jesus, what's with all the 12 year old logic under each and every news post like this? ultimately, what they're enabling there isn't allowed. they could turn these things into nightlamps and no one would care. you enable roms on them which 99.9% are not self-dumped,you're not gonna keep your video when the lawyers get wind of it.
 
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just don't show you playing illegal games just showcase homebrew then you (may) have some ground to dispute crs's

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dmca is utter bullshit they NEED to overhaul it to make hacking/homebrew (legal) allowed as it stands now they can even sue you for legit repair service (might be different soon)
 
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Chary said:
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After hacking Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. edition Game & Watch, showing how to do so, and even getting other games to run on it--DOOM among them, YouTuber stacksmashing has found some of their tutorials removed from the site. Two of the user's videos involving hacking the system were taken down from YouTube via copyright claims from Nintendo. Stacksmashing decided to fire back at Nintendo, by disputing the claims, and in the meantime, uploading highly edited video where he pokes fun at the company for going after his content. He plans to re-upload the removed videos in the future by blurring out any official gameplay footage, which according to the copyright claim, is the "reason" they were taken down.

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Wow you are discussing this topic - lol late but youtube has become a major dictating hitler at this point, - they will call anything they deem "bad" - and remove it off of youtube, it has happened to a homebrew youtuber i subscribed to, and others as well.

shites gone wack
 
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I will never understand why companies don't like you modifying their product that YOU bought.
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It’s quite simple, they want to have full control of what you do with their products, that’s why things are going all digital nowadays.
 
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It’s been known for a long time that circumvention of systems have always been against Nintendo’s rules on content that is uploaded to YouTube/Twitch.

Before, during and after the Nintendo Partner Program started/ended as well.
 

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