Nintendo is once again pursuing harmful copyright actions against some of its most loyal fanbase. Previously, Nintendo had issued copyright strikes when YouTube channels allowed music from Nintendo games to be heard within posted videos. Now, the video game developer has struck a channel for simply creating emulation-related content.
Nintendo’s history of product protection is long and meticulous. For instance, Gamecube disks in the early 2000s were created to be much smaller while carrying only a fraction of the data other disks of that generation could hold, thus giving the console a built-in anti-piracy feature.
This newest action by Nintendo doesn't involve the actual sale of emulators, but rather an attack against an emulation channel for simply displaying emulated gameplay. Considering that much of the emulated content for most of their consoles has little to no effect on Nintendo's financial gains and losses, this decision to hurt their most dedicated fans has not gone over well with gamers.
As the channel Retro Game Corps describes in their latest Twitter and YouTube community posts, Nintendo has struck a recent video of them covering Wii U emulation.
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