The New War on Pewdiepie Could Ruin Let's Plays?

Lol who cares

people are taking this way out of proportion, you dont see these kinds of videos on idubbbz or general sam

i also like that they didn't play the entire video where he immediately regrets it and says sorry

Thought about commenting, but I saw the other comments so I'll refrain... mostly.

I've seen the vid; he wasn't sorry he said it, he was sorry he was caught saying it. This dude slides by with too much that's toxic. Whether anyone wants to believe it, words have weight and meaning and that word has heinous implications. It's not cool.

He's not a kid, he fully knows what he did; just like what he did with that sign about Jewish folks (still miffed about that). If he's mad, he can drop f-bombs like everyone else, he can rage quit. Folks can stan him all they want, but one doesn't get to tell my or others how to react to someone's proven toxic b.s. 

 I don't believe he's racist. I don't think he's anti-semitic. But the fact that saying that word would ever cross his mind, or that he'd go through with hiring people to pretend to be Nazis, shows that he doesn't have enough of a conscience or just doesn't care whether he's contributing, however small, to a society of hate. If he or anyone in the public eye can throw around the term whenever he wants, that shows that anyone can do it without consequences. And that just isn't acceptable if we want our society to move past the 1960s.

PUBG's Rules of Conduct specifically state:
"1. Do not use any discriminatory language, including but not limited to any language regarding ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, religion, sexual preference or personal beliefs.

 2. Do not use extremely foul language, including but not limited to excessive profanity or language that is graphically sexual, grotesque, or violent."

So honestly he should be banned from PUBG

Let's plays can be classified as fair use if the produced content can be considered a transformative work. PewDiePie's YouTube videos are especially relevant here as they are not a market substitute for the games. Namely, your experience from playing the game would be strikingly different from watching PewDiePie play the game.

so... basically, this makes for a perfectly juicy news story because EVERYONE's wrong.

3 things.

1) This still isn't the purpose of "copyright" infrindgment. Questonable material added by streamers doesn't somehow make their video game footage "infringe" on an IP more.

2) Unlike the sign thing, PDP wasn't making a spectacle or point out of the controversial thing this time, it was purely a reaction. Saying he was bound to "slip up" sooner or later clearly indicates that he's fine spewing that garbage offline.

3) I bet the Fire Watch guy thinks he's a reeeeal hero publicly denouncing the most watched, nitpicked, polerizing streamer around by resending his video capabilities... MONTHS after it was already out and advertized the game to millions of viewers when PDP aparently had nothing but praise for it. This guys motivations are questionable at best, and his actions really only served to point out how overwhelming overreaching devs'/publishers authority is over videos they didn't make themselves.

There ought'a be some sort of statutes of limitations on how long afterwards a video can be taken down for this kind of crap. They were CLEARLY okay with all this at the time.

I've had plenty of heated game moments and never once has that word left my mouth or entered my head

People "slip up" and say the n word in public when they're used to saying it in private all they want. Not when it isn't part of their usual vocabulary. I've slipped up and said fuck out of habit in a situation I shouldn't. I've never slipped up and called someone a f*g. Why? Because I don't fucking use that word.

I'll agree that dropping the "N" bomb is bad, but you have to give some slack. I mean, If he is racist for saying that word or antisemitic for making Nazi/Jew jokes. Some people have harsh senses of humor. If we were to apply this logic elsewhere, the results can be interesting. Burnie is racist (he said the "N" word too), Ray from AH is homophobic from multiple different occasions, and Geoff/Gavin are sexual predators (Connect the hots). This does not mention the multiple anti-trans and ableism stuff many of the staff have said throughout the years. Different people have different types of humor and we can't all get offended when people talk. 

Pewdiepie should Absolutely face the consequences for his actions, and if Campo Santo doesn't want him to use his material anymore, he shouldn't be allowed to.

The way I see it, the big problem is not Campo Santo not wanting Pewdiepie not to use their game to make money, but that they took down an old video.

Let me explain: if they had come out and said "Pewdiepie is now banned from using our content for moneytized videos or streams ever again" then well, that is their right. Nintendo did the same thing a while ago, and while it sucks, it's well within their rights to do so. Instead, what they did was remove a video that existed long before this controversy happened.

This could pave the way for companies in the future deciding any video that talks negatively about their product, be it a game, movie or service, has to be taken down, and having the legal right to do so. Which is a terrible idea.