A friend of mine, who runs a YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers, recently received several YouTube copyright strikes from "mm-nintendo.com" and "[tatsumi-masaaki@protonmail.com](mailto:tatsumi-masaaki@protonmail.com)," claiming to be from Nintendo of America due to his use of emulators for Switch games. After the strikes were lifted, he got an email from "[tatsumi-masaaki@protonmail.com](mailto:tatsumi-masaaki@protonmail.com)" (with "[brand-protection@mm-nintendo.com](mailto:brand-protection@mm-nintendo.com)" in the footer) asking him to take down five videos, which he did. Then more emails followed, demanding even more videos be removed, which he also did. The latest one said he’s no longer allowed to upload any Nintendo content at all.
What’s strange is that I found "mm-nintendo.com" linked to other takedown incidents, including some related to Garry’s Mod. My friend’s videos aren’t pirated—they're just emulated Switch games with some performance improvements like FPS mods or Reshade. Despite all this, he's really afraid these emails might be legitimate, and he's very worried about losing his YouTube channel. I’ve tried to assure him that it’s a scam, even reaching out to both Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America, who confirmed that the domain isn't connected to them. However, out of fear, he still doesn’t believe me and thinks this is 100% real.
Has anyone encountered anything similar or have any insights into what’s going on?
NEW INFORMATION UPDATE 1: "FAKE Nintendo Copyright Strikes, A Big game officially headed to PC and more" by Mr. Sujano
NEW INFORMATION UPDATE 2: "The TRUTH about the recent Nintendo Takedowns…" by Kaze Clips (Kaze Emanuar)
by iZePlayz
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I never heard of this Tatsumi Masaaki person before and looking them up I don’t really see anything. If both NoA and NoE say the email domains aren’t associated with them, I’d believe them for now. There have been cases of people impersonating Nintendo to troll people after all.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gmod/s/f9vKnpkBYT
https://itch.io/takedowns/14868
mm-nintendo.com is a legitimate Nintendo email.
Seems like sketchy bullshit but I’m not sure what the point is in randomly getting him to take down videos unless he has competitors that would somehow benefit.
mm-nintendo.com is legitimate. Nintendo uses MarkMonitor to issue automated copyright takedowns, and that’s the domain they use.
That proton mail email address is fraudulent. Your friend can safely ignore emails from them, because markmonitor will always contact you through a mm-nintendo.com email address.
Spam bots and trolls pull this garbage all the time. I’ve had videos randomly flagged or copyright claimed by individuals who have nothing to do with it. YouTube is one of the worst when it comes to these false claims.
From Nintendo’s [YouTube guidelines](https://www.nintendo.co.jp/networkservice_guideline/en/index.html):
Examples of unlawful, infringing, or inappropriate content include, but are not limited to, content that incorporates Nintendo intellectual property and:
* Violates relevant laws;
* Infringes the intellectual property rights of Nintendo (including but not limited to the unauthorized use of copyrights in the game characters, story, visual elements and music and/or registered trademarks);
* **Involves illegally copied or modified game software, game software produced using Nintendo’s copyrighted material without Nintendo’s authorization, or game software obtained illegally;**
* **Shows how to use software and/or devices that circumvent security measures deployed by Nintendo to protect against infringement of its video games and console systems, such as emulators and/or other circumvention software;**
* Involves actions that may be considered to impair the gameplay experience in multiplayer modes, such as intentionally disrupting game progress;
* Features graphic, explicit, harmful, or otherwise offensive content, including statements or actions that may be considered offensive, insulting, obscene or otherwise disturbing to others;
Interferes with the proper operation or impairs the safety of Nintendo’s products or services;
* **Involves cheating, cracking, unauthorized access, circumvention of technical restrictions, unauthorized modification, or use of objects, tools, or services that enable such cheating, cracking, unauthorized access, circumvention of technical restrictions, or unauthorized modification;**
* **Features unauthorized game consoles and/or software not licensed by Nintendo; and/or**
* Features video, images, sound sources, etc., that cannot be used in regular gameplay, extracted through game software via data mining or other methods.
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Nintendo is well within their rights to take down emulation videos.
Here in europe one of the biggest nintendo youtuber also recently got strikes and had to take down like 30 videos. Right now Nintendo really tries to prevent emulation.
Zero things that are professional and legitimate, come from protonmail addresses
Emulation is a HUGE violation for anything nintendo . the videos are a violation and nintendo is not having it anymore. in other words the GAME is OVER
Just curious, what’s your friend’s channel?
NEW INFORMATION UPDATE 1: FAKE Nintendo Copyright Strikes, A Big game officially headed to PC and more” by Mr. Sujano: [https://youtu.be/FZN2rKGrB9s](https://youtu.be/FZN2rKGrB9s)
NEW INFORMATION UPDATE 2: The TRUTH about the recent Nintendo Takedowns…” by Kaze Clips (Kaze Emanuar): [https://youtu.be/8uzppsBVM2Y](https://youtu.be/8uzppsBVM2Y)