YouTube should chase hacker videos, not legitimate fan-made content

December 12th, 2013, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster

Sniper Elite and Aliens vs Predator developer Rebellion has urged YouTube to shift its focus away from 'legitimate fan-made game play videos' and crackdown on game hacking tutorials.
The independent studio has spoken out in support of game video posters as YouTube's newly-deployed and stricter copyright detection technology cripples a large number of established video game channelswith a bombardment of copyright flags.
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Cooke went on to defend affected YouTubers. "Things change fast, and we're still getting our heads round how we can help support gamers and make it as easy as possible to make video content of our games so they don't have to worry about copyright disputes.
"As indie developers we support YouTube in their aim to defend copyright, but we don't believe that chasing after legitimate fan-made game play videos is the answer. In fact we're very happy when our players show what they can do in our games and encourage our fans to help spread the word."
Cooke argued that there are more pressing matters for YouTube to focus on. "What we'd like to see is more action on videos that show how to crack or hack our games for the simple reason that if too many people get cracked versions of our games, we don't get the money back that enables us to make more games, so everyone loses out."
YouTube invited gaming channel holders to dispute "invalid" Content ID claims in an official statement after its new technology issued mass copyright warnings to game video bloggers this week.

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