I går kunne vi melde at Youtube-kjendisen Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg sopet inn utrolige 25 millioner kroner i inntekter i fjor, og blant de som har reagert på dette finner vi den omdiskuterte Fez-utvikleren Phil Fish.
Han mener nemlig at det er horribelt hvordan Youtubere tjener store penger på innhold andre har laget. Eller, for å bruke hans egne ord:
- YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all their content. [Ad] revenue should be shared with developers. This should be built into YouTube. Anything else is basically piracy.
If you generate money from putting my content on your channel, you owe me money. Simple as that. If you buy a movie, are you then allowed to stream the entirety of it publicly for people to watch for free? No, because that's illegal.
Systems are in place to prevent that. But buy Fez, put ALL of it on YouTube, turn on ads, make money from it and that's TOTALLY FINE. And the developer should in NO WAY be compensated for their work being freely distributed to the world. Right. Makes sense, skriver Fish.
At Let's Play-videoer også kan betraktes som gratis markedsføring (kanskje seerne har lyst til å prøve spillet selv?), har han tydeligvis ikke ofret en tanke, selv om han naturligvis har et poeng her vedrørende bruks- og lisensrettigheter.