Nintendo Do not mess when it comes to The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom’s Tears leaks. In fact, it’s so aggressive right now it seems to have unintentionally snagged innocent content creators just for sharing official screenshots in the copyright ban campaign. God of War Writer and singer Alanah Pearce said she was temporarily banned from Twitch after Nintendo DMCA her channel over her reaction to an existing video preview of the game.
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since copied Kingdom Tears I dropped in early and started It spreads over the Internet due to hackingNintendo has been in a frenzy, removing social media channels and Discord servers promoting leaked screenshots and secrets from the game. Initially slow to respond, the company now appears to be hitting anything that remotely looks like a leak with a takedown notice.
Lol, my Twitch just got suspended in the middle of a stream because I was interacting with @SkillUpYT zelda Video preview, “Pierce chirp On May 8, she was in the middle of streaming footage of a Nintendo-sanctioned preview from YouTuber SkilUp. Kingdom Tears When her offline channel was taken down due to copyright infringement by the company. “The absolute banger of the week this week tbh,” she wrote.
in Brief YouTube video On the subject, the content creator and former IGN host said it was her first comment on Twitch and wondered if it might be the result of someone at the company seeing her channel and panicking that she was streaming a leaked version of the game before actually watching to see what was going on.
“I know Nintendo doesn’t like me, I’ve been told that, even though I have friends who work there,” Pearce joked. “Maybe he was targeted on purpose and they’re just trying to make me unenthusiastic about it zelda. I don’t know.” I appealed the ban, however, and he did since flipped As a false DMCA request.
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But Peirce wasn’t the only one caught up in some spirited attempts to squash the leaks. Nintendo YouTuber Austin John Plays shared a tweet with a screenshot from one of the IGNwhich were apparently also removed at the company’s request. “I received a DCMA take down request for my tweet from Japanese anti-piracy company Nintendo for tweeting about the IGN video and the word [autobuild],” he books on May 8th [done] anything about it IGN1.2 million videos. “
Nintendo even accidentally hit itself with a takedown notice. yesterday, Tweet from the official Zelda Twitter An account in Japan temporarily experienced a “media not displayed” error after removing a screenshot from the game “in response to a report from the copyright owner.” One commenter responded, “The hell you’re claiming copyright on yourself.” Redfall I fell into a similar trap After being leaked earlier this month, the art from the game’s official Twitter account hit by accident.
But Nintendo’s crackdown is part of a broader effort to exercise total control over its games and how they appear online. after Kingdom Tears Artbook leaked in the company’s February invoked discord For the personal information of one of the users participating in the posting about it. and popular zelda YouTubers like Eric “PointCrow” Morino have recently seen a number of seniors Breath of the Wild videos nuked from their channels Because it was associated with modified content. We’ll see if things calm down at once Kingdom Tears Officially on May 12th.
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