Nintendo blocks more than 1300 videos using its soundtracks on Youtube

Listening to the soundtrack of your favorite Nintendo game might be harder than it used to be.

(Feature image credit: Nintendo)

The Japanese publisher continues its fight once morest users who publish music from Nintendo games on Youtube. A Youtube channel, well known to Nintendo soundtrack fans, saw 1,300 videos blocked in a single day.

Soundtracks not available elsewhere

The news is not surprising when you know the rigorous way in which Nintendo manages its intellectual properties. It is, however, frustrating for many fans since, unlike many other soundtracks, Nintendo’s music blocked from Youtube is also not available on streaming sites like Spotify.

Yesterday morning, the Youtuber GilvaSunner published a tweet explaining the situation to its subscribers. Nintendo has sent Youtubers 1300 copyright blocks. The channel, which is hugely popular, brought full game soundtracks from the Mario, Kirby, Zelda, etc. license to Youtube for fans to easily listen to.

Game over pic.twitter.com/lsLKKg8ZF8

— GilvaSunner (@GilvaSunner) August 13, 2019

Games affected

If you’re a Nintendo music fan, or if you’ve ever searched for a particular song to remember, chances are you’ve stumbled upon one of his videos. Here is the list of games whose soundtrack was blocked by Nintendo yesterday:

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Pas
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
• Super Smash Bros Melee
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Yoshi’s Island
• Super Mario Land
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Mario World
• New Super Mario Bros
• Mario & Luigi: Bowser Inside Story
• Kid Icarus Uprising
• Kirby’s Dream Land

According to the Youtuber, his channel would not be monetized and therefore would not bring him any profit. He also mentions in a second Tweet directly addressed to Nintendo that several other game companies have their soundtrack available for streaming while Nintendo is often slow to modernize.

. @Nintendo @NintendoAmerica Please put your soundtracks on Spotify and/or other music streaming services. Namco, Square, Capcom and others have already seen the light, when will you?

— GilvaSunner (@GilvaSunner) August 14, 2019

According to the community, we shouldn’t expect a change soon from Nintendo, given the way the company currently handles fan-made content and mods. It is however entirely their right to block these videos since the content belongs to them, only disappointing for the fans not to have an alternative.