Under constant pressure and foot-stamping from copyright holders, Google has implemented a new system within YouTube that automatically flags videos that may contain copyrighted material. The trouble, as Computer and Video Games reports, is that the new system is flagging a lot of gamers' "Let's Play" videos where they give multipart walkthroughs of popular video games overlapped with their own commentary. While such videos may technically violate gaming companies' intellectual property rights, game publishers have long tolerated and even encouraged them since they're great ways to promote games online.
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YouTube’s copyright cops are coming after gamers’ ‘Let’s Play’ videos