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My channel was given a notice from Nintendo and I appealed it agreeing to go to court. They disputed and re-filed the claim multiple times and said I lost the c
by ddtaylor 8y ago
My channel was given a notice from Nintendo and I appealed it agreeing to go to court. They disputed and re-filed the claim multiple times and said I lost the claim after appeal.
The video was of me downloading via Github a NES emulator that someone wrote in less than 1000 lines of C++ not even minified or anything. It worked too and had many features. I made the video to show the developer a bug with the sound. None of the sound even played correctly which was the entire premise of the video itself. You could barely make out the tune of the original Zelda game even if you knew it, let alone enjoy it with all the random static, pops and clicks.
I was actually excited to make a series of videos showing me doing emulation from the ground up so that more could enjoy the hobby and teach people how emulators aren't always complicated black boxes of magic, but upon losing the appeal over the course of 2 months on my FIRST upload I gave up since it would have taken me hours to manage this for every video when I wasn't expecting to make anything from it.
Also Nintendo attempts to essentially bribe you saying they will make it all go away is you give them 60% ownership and sign their partner agreement. I declined, and they later said I violated the partner agreement I never accepted in the YouTube dispute.
Nintendo is trash in my book now.
- jrhurst 8y agoWait. So did you go to court or not?
- ddtaylor 8y agoNo. I had to sign an affidavit as part of the appeal after Nintendo appealed saying I was willing to go to court and that YouTube was going to end their involvement in the dispute if it continued then the next email I received was saying I had lost my dispute and I could start the process over again for a third time. At that point I started considering the reality of doing this with every video and decided to cut my losses since it would never scale.
- busterarm 8y ago> Nintendo is trash in my book now. I just purchased a New 2DSXL (for Rhythm Core Alpha 2). I had to return it twice because the first two units I received were dead on arrival. Power lights but no sound and no screens.
- ddtaylor 8y agoHad it worked you could have played games on the virtual console via emulation, but when I do it they cast lawyers on me.