Nintendo fan gets 1,300 DMCA takedowns in one day over YouTube music

metro.co.uk:

You wouldn’t expect Nintendo to like people hosting their music on YouTube but this time they’ve gone overboard with the copyright strikes.

Nintendo are a strange company but in some way they’re also a very predictable one, and there some things you can always guarantee about them. One is an over-the-top sense of secrecy, and the other is a zero tolerance attitude to copyright infringement.

Every year some new fan group attempts to create an unofficial remake or spin-off of a Nintendo game and every year they get shutdown, and yet they always seem to act surprised at the fact. As do those that try to reuse Nintendo music on YouTube and elsewhere.

Nintendo hates it when people do that and they’ve been orchestrating a massive series of takedown orders against YouTube fans since 2020, with the latest batch including 1,300 copyright blocks against a single channel.

Nintendo has tried to stop GilvaSunner before, but the channel doesn’t seem to have taken the hint and the insistence that the tracks aren’t monetised hasn’t stopped Nintendo from sending in the lawyers.

Legally, GilvaSunner hasn’t got a leg to stand on, as what they’re doing is absolutely against the law and Nintendo are well within their rights to issue the takedowns.

Fans are upset, though, not only because of the heavy-handed way that Nintendo always goes about this sort of thing but because there’s no legal alternative for anyone that just wants to listen to their music.

There are no official Nintendo soundtracks on Spotify, or any other streaming service, and Nintendo has never shown any interest in making their music available in any other way.

Their attitude towards complete soundtracks is even more random than towards how and when they make available their retro