Nintendo's Creator's Program

[Weltall]

I think we all need to have a serious conversation so as to suss out just what, exactly, constitutes a threat to intellectual property. If someone suggests that a gameplay video threatens intellectual property, the conversation stops being serious right away. If someone suggests that piracy threatens intellectual property, the question needs to be asked, how much, really?

Honestly, I think IP is far too protected. What you make should have your name on it. You should be the only one who decides who gets what, and how much, from selling that property. Past that point, I find it hard to accept that there exists any legitimate threat. You lose nothing when someone copies software, other than perhaps a sale to the copier--but that's too loose a hypothesis for me. How many Photoshop pirates would ever pay $600 for it?

When people make YouTube videos of Nintendo games, Nintendo only wins. It increases exposure of their property, property which nobody is going to think belongs to anybody but Nintendo, and if you sell one extra copy of a game because someone saw a video, then all that has happened to Nintendo as a result of this video is that they made money.