I had a friend whose daughter seemed to feel that installing Bonzi Buddy on every computer she came in contact with was her sole reason for exisitence.
I sat her down and explained the error of her ways but she did not stop on the grounds that Bonzi was so "cute"
As I said in the comments on another article about this the problem seems to be Japan.
By all accounts Nintendo America understands Youtube and Social Media and how they can be beneficial. It's Nintendo Japan that is being all draconian about this.
Let's look at another example that also involves Angry Joe.
Capcom USA sent him a press package to promote the most recent Street Fighter release. He made a video about it that included clips from the promotional video provided to him by Capcom. It was slapped with a takedown notice by Capcom Japan.
With these sort of incidents it always seems to trace back to the offices of the Japanese game publishers.
Perhaps it's a cultural thing I don't understand but there are many examples of Japanese companies being somewhat hostile to the internet.
Back in 2012 Congress forced the Army to buy $431 million worth of tanks it didn't need or want just so the local senators/representatives could keep the plant where they were made open.
The Army had prior to this said it had no plans to purchase new tanks until at least 2017.
I stopped going to the site about two years ago due to an ad related incident when trying to watch an episode of Zero Punctuation.
I clicked on the video and tabbed over to a forum to read a thread while the pre-roll ad played.
After a couple of minutes I realized that the episode never started playing. When I tabbed back instead of the video I wanted to watch there was a text entry box where I had to enter the name of the item that had been advertised (A Toyota RAV-4) before the ad would go away.
I closed the window and have not gone back to the website since.
I'm a reasonable person and i understand that they are a business and advertising is how they stay in operation. I normally don't mind having to deal with a pre-roll ad. But requiring me to take a quiz about your commercial before I can see your content crosses the line for intrusive and obnoxious.
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(untitled comment)
Did they send a C&D to the soda too?
Re: (as Mark)
I'm sure no child under 13 has an account anywhere on the internet because of the precedent set by COPPA.
(untitled comment)
Re: God, what a stupid, worthless idea in the first place.
I sat her down and explained the error of her ways but she did not stop on the grounds that Bonzi was so "cute"
Re: Re: Pure, endless greed (as Mark)
By all accounts Nintendo America understands Youtube and Social Media and how they can be beneficial. It's Nintendo Japan that is being all draconian about this.
Let's look at another example that also involves Angry Joe.
Capcom USA sent him a press package to promote the most recent Street Fighter release. He made a video about it that included clips from the promotional video provided to him by Capcom. It was slapped with a takedown notice by Capcom Japan.
With these sort of incidents it always seems to trace back to the offices of the Japanese game publishers.
Perhaps it's a cultural thing I don't understand but there are many examples of Japanese companies being somewhat hostile to the internet.
(untitled comment) (as Mark)
http://www.bluproducts.com/
Lawsuit tag! You're it!
(untitled comment) (as Mark)
Re: Re: Re: starting (as Mark)
The Army had prior to this said it had no plans to purchase new tanks until at least 2017.
(untitled comment) (as Mark)
(untitled comment)
I clicked on the video and tabbed over to a forum to read a thread while the pre-roll ad played.
After a couple of minutes I realized that the episode never started playing. When I tabbed back instead of the video I wanted to watch there was a text entry box where I had to enter the name of the item that had been advertised (A Toyota RAV-4) before the ad would go away.
I closed the window and have not gone back to the website since.
I'm a reasonable person and i understand that they are a business and advertising is how they stay in operation. I normally don't mind having to deal with a pre-roll ad. But requiring me to take a quiz about your commercial before I can see your content crosses the line for intrusive and obnoxious.
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