This is sort of a follow up to last year's blog I made about music copyright. (https://sullivanentertainment.blogspot.com/2017/06/music-claims-youtubers-worst-nightmare.html) Like that, content ID's are a common thing for YouTubers. It doesn't matter if the person is huge or struggling to get to a couple hundred subscribers, it gets frustrating.
What does it mean exactly? Well, it means a company knows that their content is on their, typically music, and don't go deleting the video you made. At least for me. As of now, it's mainly videos of Super Mario Bros. for the NES. The strange thing is a number of these are getting ID'd from Nintendo themselves for using audio from Super Mario Odyssey. That's frustrating because I did the videos in early 2015 and Odyssey came out this past October. Why go after stuff that was made before this game came out? It makes no sense and personally, it gives me more of a reason not to do games that Nintendo has done that is on their list of games that they have listed on their site.
The reason why I'm doing this one is because of a guy I'm subscribed to. His channel is Gaming History Source, and it's one I've followed for a long time. He does videos of different versions of the same game. For example, numbers of arcade games and ones that started off on the PC. A video he did recently talked about possibly quitting because of BMG Entertainment going after a Bubble Bobble video and a Tetris video. It's sad because people like him do provide a different outlet of videos covering more than just Nintendo stuff. His ability to find all these ports of games is amazing in itself and to have most or all in one video is nice. It's the case, which is like last year's blog, of it being music and companies trying to go after people even though the company does not own the music to it.
Out of all the stuff, Tetris? It makes no sense. And it's not just him that I'm subscribed to that is having this issue. Another one with issues is this channel mikelat. His problem was stuff from certain games like Star Wars, which is a given. A couple other games that have given him the content ID. Cubex55 (World of Longplays, long plays) leaves their videos they way they are and they take any content ID with a huge grain of salt. And really, you can't fight YouTube because YouTube is fucking useless. Again, it's the whole scenario from 10 years ago dealing with Viacom, and other music companies that are owned by Sony, Warner, Universal.
I wish there was an alternative site to go to, but there isn't. There's Dailymotion and Vimeo, but they don't even come close to an inch of what YouTube gets in views and money. Bullying users is not the solution. Someone has to put these companies who claim stuff they don't own responsible. Otherwise, it's going to lead to people quitting and not providing something unique to their channel.
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