For the first time in Japanese history, police arrested a YouTuber for sharing gameplay and anime footage without permission. Shinoba Yoshida posted footage from Steins;Gate and Spy x Family for years, but one of their more recent videos was deemed severe enough to be the final straw.

As reported by Japan Today, it seems that sharing footage from My Darling's Embrace led to the YouTuber being arrested. Not only did Yoshida make money from the videos despite not having permission to use footage from the game's rights holder Kadokawa, but one of the videos spoils the game's ending.

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Since entries in the Steins:Gate series are visual novels and require little input from the player, watching a YouTube video in which the entire plot is laid out effectively means you're getting the game for free. Since the videos were monetized, not only is Kadokawa losing out as potential players enjoy the game without having to pay, but someone entirely unconnected to the studio who doesn't have permission to share the footage is benefitting from it.

This isn't a case of a YouTuber simply not knowing that what they were doing was wrong either. Since their arrest, Yoshida has admitted they knew full well that what they were doing was illegal. An interesting admission as Anime News Network highlights there isn't currently an industry standard for this sort of thing.

Studios handle how much of a game's content can be used by YouTubers and the like on a case-by-case basis. While some will give specific instructions on where to stop, others have different ways of handling this sort of thing. Nintendo, for example, only allows content creators who are members of the YouTube Partners Program to share gameplay footage without consequence.

Nintendo may well be the studio that tops the list of those you definitely don't want to cross when it comes to this sort of thing. Tears of the Kingdom leaks have led to the studio seeking out justice even more diligently than in the past. A GameStop employee even lost their job for sharing photos of the Zelda sequel's OLED Switch before it had been officially revealed. As for sharing gameplay footage, YouTubers who don't have permission to do so might receive a stiffer punishment than merely having their videos taken down moving forward.

However, while there isn't a precedent for these kinds of cases in the industry, Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Promotion Organization (or CODA) stated that, "in principle", gameplay videos should not be shared without permission, something that Yoshida did not acquire.

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