DeoxysPrime, who runs a YouTube account with 165,000 subscribers, home to all kinds of video game soundtrackshad to delete their entire Nintendo music library after receiving it more than 500 copyright claims from the company that activates happiness.
They do not host uploads of commercially available albums; instead, like the rest of their channel (which we have featured on the website before!), they uploaded complete soundtracks to titles like Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon taken directly from the game itself. In a statement posted on Twitter on May 30, they wrote:
Effective immediately, I will be removing all Nintendo music from my channel. With more than 500 claims and dozens of soundtracks blocked in the past week, it’s clear they don’t want their music to appear on YouTube. I apologize to everyone who enjoys their music but I don’t have many options.
I have no intention of deleting my channel and the rest of my non-Nintendo tracks will remain for the foreseeable future. It’s frustrating but like I said before, it’s ultimately their choice to block their music on the platform.
Good luck to those who still want Nintendo music on YouTube. Many of those soundtracks were never officially released. But just like how my larger channels have been affected, so will their replacements eventually end up like this.
In a follow-up announcement posted on their YouTube page, they said:
Again, I apologize for the inconvenience this will cause, as I enjoy listening to Nintendo music up here like all of you, but it doesn’t make sense to continue like this.
As always, you can follow me on Twitter for any other updates and as a general reminder, if you see any of the soundtracks on my channel removed, you can always assume it’s for copyright reasons. Please respect their right to do this but also please continue to push Nintendo to release their music in official formats, because there’s no reason why these soundtracks should be gone forever. Thank you.
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Some of the soundtracks that have been taken down include those for the Smash series, Donkey Kong Country games, Wind Waker, F-Zero series and most of the modern Mario and Mario Kart games.
Like they say, Nintendo, if you’re going to do this please at least release these soundtracks in official formats (albums! Spotify!), because I am getting too tired to link to this old post anytime.
This is not the first time a major music channel has been targeted by Nintendo in recent times. Come back in January GilvaSunner, which has received more than 1,300 copyright blocks, said at the time, “I’m … not angry or surprised that Nintendo did this, but I think it’s a bit disappointing that there’s hardly an alternative.”
