You know what? Konami can go screw themselves!

[major_kerina]

They wiped out an extensive compendium of Metal Gear Solid series videos from the entire series on Youtube because it had some videos of Metal Gear Solid 4 and OH NOES! people can't be knowing our uber-secret POS plot!

That compendium of fan-stuff was amazing and extensive and across all the games with cutscenes...extras...fun stuff...interpretive videos. Now it's just a suspended account. At first, I thought "well...one person...don't know what they may have done" But no...it's tons of them...

Whatever's left is newly re-added or mostly Konami/big-website releases that are mirrored.

Give me a break. Yeah...people watching captures of your precious game in grainy Youtube-vision are gonna cut into your sales by several million, huh? Smacks of desperate since your pride and joy isn't performing how you like.

This is really insulting because the gameplay assistance walkthroughs are all gone. The fan-made walkthroughs. Many of promotional videos too...I'm willing to bet the video Saki posted for her review, which was a little unflattering, might not be long for this world either.

Sure they can be reuped but for me...Konami has made all my game-buying decisions a little easier.

Edit - Here you can see some of what Konami was so worried about

http://youtomb.mit.edu/browse/down%3Acopyright%3AKonami%20Digital%20Entertainment%20Co.%20Ltd.
I don't know exactly how Youtube's terms work...but the accounts involved are definitely suspended. So all the videos are inaccessible now.

Edit - On second thought, yeah, Konami lawyers/those marketing it probably had more to do with this than anyone who made it.

Comments

[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I'll save my usual rant on this topic for tomorrow when I'm awake (and I'll post it on my own journal).

For now, I will just say that I agree heartily.

[allieflowlight.livejournal.com]

Or maybe I won't. XD

[mistresshikari.livejournal.com]

Yay for huge corporations and the tendency for their lawyers to be overly hyperactive and sharkish, and yay for Youtube's love of taking it from huge corporations XD

I so bet it was a single employee who decided to do this

[mikomi-rika.livejournal.com]

I want to know how old the people who ordered this takedown were. I bet they were over 50.

And if I'm right, the course I'm teaching next year is going to be more interesting. :)

[major-kerina.livejournal.com]

I'd take that bet too. It proves out everywhere old-media standards of control come into play with the Internet. X_X

[mikomi-rika.livejournal.com]

It's more about the issue of the pre-internet generation, who are now managers and think they are in control and should stay so, completely misunderstanding the new generation, which thinks in very different ways and even has a very different memory organization (the verb 'to google' isn't a verb for nothing). It doesn't only show in media industry, but also in HR.

[aisaku.livejournal.com]

Even thru this, the fandom endures.. I'm sure a lot of people saved those videos... They were even versions in spanish and other languages as I remember