It’s believed that Nintendo is about to start taking down YouTube again, this time targeting Zelda: Breath of the Wild mods.
The YouTuber allegedly on the American Nintendo hotline this time is a streamer and modder known as ‘PointCrow‘. It has 1.6 million subscribers and made headlines in 2021 for offering $10,000 to anyone who can put together a Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod.
The creation was developed with the help of modder Alex Mangue over the past year, and now Nintendo has apparently gone on a rampage towards PointCrow – appropriating more than 24 videos on his channel (including those about the mod). Besides Zelda, this even includes Mario and Pokémon content.
In a new video upload titled “Nintendo is removing my videos“, PointCrow called out the video game giant in a prepared statement (reviewed by his lawyer) for targeting his channel with two separate copyright infringements aimed at his Zelda multiplayer mod videos, and accused them of “deliberately” putting his life in danger.
He hopes Nintendo could potentially consider reversing the decisions, as he admits there’s really not much he can do but pray and “step away from this type of content.” PointCrow insists it has “never encouraged the piracy of Nintendo games”, never sold the mods it commissioned, and notes that “all code is custom made” claiming they are “without Nintendo funds”. The download links on the multiplayer Zelda mod Discord page have also been removed.
The content creator has also expressed concern that his videos featuring the “regular” game Breath of the Wild have also been unfairly targeted and believes that all of his videos comply with Nintendo’s Game Content Guidelines.
All of this has obviously escalated as Nintendo is now being accused else YouTube creators to remove “out of context” videos, but copyright removal. This reportedly includes regular videos from the YouTube channel ‘croton
PointCrow warns that this could set a precedent, and that these immediate takedowns could greatly impact YouTube’s coverage of the upcoming release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – with creators worrying that “Nintendo is enforcing its [sic] copyright over the video that conforms to theirs [sic] own policies”.
“So if you’ve uploaded any video that contains any Nintendo content, no matter how transformative or directly in line with their [sic] published guidelines, you are at risk.”
