“It’s a pretty big deal,” Kjellberg said. “If I get more than three of them, my channel will shut down.”
According to Google’s policy, if Kjellberg were to receive three copyright strikes, his account will be terminated. All videos uploaded to his account will be removed and he won’t be able to create new accounts. Essentially, every video he has ever uploaded to YouTube will be erased.
here’s to fucking hoping m8
this sets a dangerous precedent that developers legally own any footage of their game recorded by anybody
trust me you do not want pewdiepie to lose this. he’s an asshole which makes everyone want to root against him but it would ruin quite a few good things we take for granted. don’t let him ruin it for everybody, let him ruin himself and himself alone.
If this goes through, developers could start copyright striking any review video on YouTube that says their game is bad and uses footage to prove it.
I don’t care how you feel about PewDiePie, you have to look at the bigger picture with this.
Let’s even ignore that for a second, let’s try something these people actually (pretend to) care about. So a company can strike your video if you say something they don’t like. What about a homophobic company striking a ln LGBT let’s player? A racist company that doesn’t want their product associated with Muslims?
This is basically exactly what this is. If there’s precedent for devs suing somebody for saying something they don’t like, especially in an unrelated video on an unrelated issue, then it goes the other way as well.
Somebody criticizing a gamer for pointing out their content is sexist or racist is just as likely to get unrelated copyright strikes as the guy who said the N word because that’s the devs’ prerogative. Nobody is safe. The only thing until now that’s been protecting people from this is public opinion because it’s 100% within their rights to do this
So if the biggest YouTube gamer on the planet is made an example like this then all YouTube gamers and YouTubers in general are free game. No more fan content.
And there would go half the channels I follow. Along with anyone who uses another’s footage/image to review or make a point.
YouTube accepts Campo Santo’s copyright strike against PewDiePie, could lead to bigger issues
Death By Catchphrase 