Activision takes down YouTuber's videos to Make You Pay for Them in Elite?

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XboxAhoy, is a well known YouTube commentator that makes some of the most impressive weapon guides for the Call of Duty community. The combination of his soothing voice and high production in his videos makes for an great way to learn about the guns. We even featured his first 10 MW3 videos here on MP1st, Guide 1 and Guide 2, as we are fans of his work. He’s been making guide videos since Modern Warfare 2, and the quality of his work made Activision take notice. So, during the lead up to Modern Warfare 3′s release, the publisher signed Stuart to produce the official weapon guides for Elite TV. Of course, these videos are only accessible to premium members, which left Stuart’s fans worried about his YouTube series. He assured his YouTube fans that he had a series in mind for YouTube as well when he promised “I’ll be doing a series for YouTube as well as for Elite.” It turned out that the Express series was for YouTube and the longer, more fleshed out series was for Elite TV. The Elite videos are little over 3 minutes long, whereas the YouTube “Express” videos hover around 1 min and 45 seconds. The two series have different formats and layovers.

Although this might have angered some fans for not being able to watch Stuart’s longer videos, it was understandable for him to go that route. He still didn’t forget his fans with the Express series. This was all well until last Friday when Activision requested ”the removal of Weapon Guide Express. It was complied with on [Stuart's] behalf by Machinima.” It’s worth noting that Activision waited after Stuart released 10 videos to remove them. We hope Stuart will get the express guide back on his channel.

http://mp1st.com/2011/11/21/activision-takes-down-youtubers-videos-to-make-you-pay-for-them-in-elite/

EA fucking over ps3 gamers.....capcom charging for cheat codes....and now this.....
WORST, GENERATION, EVER.

They'd probably charge us on the hour while playing one of their games if they could.

Reaper wrote:

Lol how did EA fuck over PS3 gamers?

But yeah Activisions greed knows no bounds....i wouldnt be surprised if they started charging the everyday gamer to be allowed their gameplays on youtube.

"FREE GAME WITH PURCHASE OF BF3."

/No free game given.

What's the problem here? Dude just got paid big $ for playing a video game. More power to him. Thread title is misleading, I thought people actually had their vids removed...

I clicked the link, it was the same article...

@Reaper But he signed up for it. He knew what he was doing when he was putting pen to paper. And he never actually uploaded that guide he did for elite to youtube, he just made a different, faster and probably not as detailed one for youtube. Is what I read from the article. I blame Activision for alot but I still fail to see where they went evil here.