I just got done watching a video from the popular and funny The Angry Joe Show. This video isn’t funny at all. It’s about Nintendo screwing him over, throwing a copywrite claim on his ENTIRE video. Not just a specific song, but the entire. video.
This actually worries me, as a gamer and a reviewer who blogs about games. I do this in my own time, and really whenever I feel like it. Typically, I’m just talking to myself because hardly anyone looks at these blogs, except a few people from the MRT Server (and of course angry).
But what worries me, is if Nintendo can get away with saying “You’re making a video of our characters! That’s illegal!!” What if it was illegal to do reviews in general? What if they actually found this website, and started sending me emails of what I can and cannot say in my blog posts?
Though, I don’t think they’ll be actively looking for review sites that are ‘off the radar’ sort of speak. In other words, I feel “protected” that I can ramble on how much I don’t like a particular game or games, and not feel like I have to censor my content due to a game company not happy with my review (as it goes over mostly the bad parts. As the game may not be good at all.)
No. This issue is mainly situated against Youtubers. Famous Youtubers(like Dan, and Angry Joe). Why? YouTube is where most people go for game reviews. Not blog posts. What I do is pretty much the “analog” way of doing reviews.
Plus, typing in a review is so much easier than needing recording software, a good rendering computer, knowledge on editing footage and sound to make it 1080p(and have 30-60 FPS), and then having the balls to post videos and listen to feedback(trollish or not).
Which is why I’m never ever going to do that. I had constantly thought of having a “Benie Fails At…” series(as a kind of a spinoff of a Lets Play). But the effort.. well, you know me.