{"id":627918,"date":"2026-03-26T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:34:40","slug":"nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s lawyers hit Metroid Prime music YouTuber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Another day, another case of Nintendo being Nintendo. This time, the company is cracking down on a YouTuber that uploaded covers of music from Metroid Prime to their channel.<\/p>\n<p>Content creator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/synamax\/status\/1536724341924237314\">SynaMax<\/a> revealed that nine of his videos have had to be taken down, after Nintendo sent in the big guns and flexed their legal muscles his way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 31st May, a lawyer representing Nintendo called me and asked me to take down nine videos off the channel,&#8221; SynaMax explained in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YMPlvdbbMhg\">video<\/a> (spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/latest-music-youtuber-targeted-by-nintendo-claims-lawyers-phoned-me\/\">VGC<\/a>). &#8220;I&#8217;m really disappointed in Nintendo that they would force me to take down these videos because they want compulsory licenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendos-lawyers-hit-metroid-prime-music-youtuber\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another case of Nintendo being Nintendo. This time, the company is cracking down on a YouTuber that uploaded covers of music from Metroid Prime to their channel. Content creator SynaMax revealed that nine of his videos have had to be taken down, after Nintendo sent in the big guns and flexed their legal muscles his way. &#8220;On 31st May, a lawyer representing Nintendo called me and asked me to take down nine videos off the channel,&#8221; SynaMax explained in a new video (spotted by VGC). &#8220;I&#8217;m really disappointed in Nintendo that they would force me to take down these videos because they want compulsory licenses.&#8221; Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[4718,13,21],"class_list":["post-627918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-metroid-prime","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo&#039;s lawyers hit Metroid Prime music YouTuber | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another day, another case of Nintendo being Nintendo. 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