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It's not just emulators. People have gotten cease-and-desists from their lawyers for drawing fan-art of their characters. Streamers will get strikes/takedowns

by hooby 3y ago

It's not just emulators. People have gotten cease-and-desists from their lawyers for drawing fan-art of their characters. Streamers will get strikes/takedowns for playing their games. And similar stuff... If you don't want to get legal threats, I recommend to never mention their name, any of their trademarks, or even ever publicly acknowledge their existence. They have become the-company-which-may-not-be-named.

lrvick 3y ago
Or we educate them on the Streisand Effect.
- account42 3y ago
  So essentially reward them with our patronage for being dicks? No thanks.
  - PawgerZ 3y ago
    Reward them with our patronage? Do you know what the Streisand Effect is?
    - hooby 3y ago
      The Streisand effect is named after when Barbara Streisand's attempts to get a picture of her private house and garden removed from the internet, instead causing it to go viral. Nintendo as a company does greatly benefit from people talking about it and it's products. That's publicity, word of mouth, free advertising basically. When they abuse takedowns, strikes and other measures, they do not want to stop that free publicity and word of mouth advertising. They are attempting to control it, manipulate it, and limit it to company approved screenshots, videos and information only. If those attempts generate more publicity - including making the taken down screenshots go viral (Streisand effect style) - that's beneficial publicity and word-of-mouth for them and their products. And it also amplifies the message sent to others: use only approved materials, or face our wrath! Therefore providing them with improved visibility and publicity - more word of mouth - and helping them spread their "fall in line!" message, can be seen as "rewarding" what they are doing. If instead most people were to completely ignore them and stop talking about them (out of fear)... THAT would hurt their publicity.
numpad0 3y ago
They have always been. I'd seen and heard them mentioned as "the Kyoto card dealer(京都の花札屋)" than by the name, online and offline. Same people would just mention Sony or Toshiba or JAL, but not always Nintendo. Personally I don't do this, but that's how it always was.

by hooby 3y ago

lrvick 3y ago

Or we educate them on the Streisand Effect.

account42 3y ago
So essentially reward them with our patronage for being dicks? No thanks.
- PawgerZ 3y ago
  Reward them with our patronage? Do you know what the Streisand Effect is?
  - hooby 3y ago
    The Streisand effect is named after when Barbara Streisand's attempts to get a picture of her private house and garden removed from the internet, instead causing it to go viral. Nintendo as a company does greatly benefit from people talking about it and it's products. That's publicity, word of mouth, free advertising basically. When they abuse takedowns, strikes and other measures, they do not want to stop that free publicity and word of mouth advertising. They are attempting to control it, manipulate it, and limit it to company approved screenshots, videos and information only. If those attempts generate more publicity - including making the taken down screenshots go viral (Streisand effect style) - that's beneficial publicity and word-of-mouth for them and their products. And it also amplifies the message sent to others: use only approved materials, or face our wrath! Therefore providing them with improved visibility and publicity - more word of mouth - and helping them spread their "fall in line!" message, can be seen as "rewarding" what they are doing. If instead most people were to completely ignore them and stop talking about them (out of fear)... THAT would hurt their publicity.

numpad0 3y ago

They have always been. I'd seen and heard them mentioned as "the Kyoto card dealer(京都の花札屋)" than by the name, online and offline. Same people would just mention Sony or Toshiba or JAL, but not always Nintendo. Personally I don't do this, but that's how it always was.