The music is one of the best assets that have the nintendo games. And there are many fans of Big N video games who enjoy listening to the soundtracks of Mario, Zelda, Pokémon and Kirby games, among many other titles. However, Nintendo does not upload its soundtracks to typical streaming platforms like Spotify or Amazon Music, so there is no legal way to access such content. In recent weeks, a youtuber that was dedicated to collecting soundtracks of Nintendo games has received 500 claims by the Japanese company to remove its content.
Nintendo charges another youtuber of soundtracks
Deoxys Prime is the latest youtuber who has been forced to take drastic measures Following mounting pressure from Nintendo to remove the soundtracks of your channel. Already in 2019, this youtuber He posted a video on his channel warning that “Nintendo ninjas were after him”, and that at any moment, he would have to remove all the soundtracks he owned that he had uploaded to his channel. At that time, the user only had to remove the soundtracks from splatoon 2, Bayonetta 2 Y Xenoblade Chronicles.
That fateful day that I anticipated a few years ago has already arrived. On May 30, DeoxysPrime posted on its Twitter account that after receiving over 500 copyright infringement noticeswas forced to remove all Nintendo music from your channel. The user has withdrawn the videos almost immediately, although he dedicated a Twitter thread to complain about the absurd way in which Nintendo manages its IPs.
Effective immediately I will be removing all Nintendo music from my channel. With 500+ claims and a dozen soundtracks blocked over the last week it’s pretty clear they don’t want their music on YouTube. I’m sorry to everyone who enjoys their music but I don’t have much choice.
— DeoxysPrime (@DeoxysPrime) May 30, 2022
And it is that, already in the 2019 video, the comments are full of people criticizing Nintendo for not uploading its soundtracks to streaming platforms. In fact, as much as Nintendo dedicates its efforts to detecting YouTube channels that infringe its intellectual property rights, it will hardly end the problem in this way. They are free to scour the internet for people uploading their music without permission, but if they don’t come up with an official fix, the problem will still exist. Right now, the only way to access Nintendo music is through the piracy or through covers tailor-made to evade detection algorithms.
DeoxysPrime is not the first youtuber to face this problem. Just a few months ago, GilvaSunner, another very popular user, had to close his channel after receiving more than 3,500 bans.
Official solutions also end up plated
In February of this year, The Pokémon Company -remember, it is not entirely powered by Nintendo- went a little out of the usual line of the Japanese and uploaded the soundtrack of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl to YouTube. They did it accompanied by a website called Pokémon DP Sound Library, where users could listen to each and every one of the songs of the video game. Well, the website has only lasted a few months, because if we try to access it right now, we will find a beautiful announcement in which they tell us that the service has been closed.
