Being a compromise does not automatically make it acceptable, like Jim Sterling said, Nintendo getting into bed with content creators should have everyone utterly terrified of it's implications, how is anyone supposed to trust reviews of Nintendo's new releases knowing this?
I REALLY don't see how being a "family brand" entitles them to censor videos about their games for no reason, nobody was talking about doing a Custer's Revenge mash-up at any point and Nintendo is oddly specific about what they censor from games(I.E. they censor the menus and cutscenes), if anything that makes Nintendo look very anti-family.
Nintendo may have originated in Japan but they do have an American division so I don't see what difference it makes what their policy over in Japan is.
People went silent on Content ID because things we're finally sorted out properly, game companies clarified that they were not making claims on Youtube's behalf and finally people's Let's Play's and reviews of games stopped being claimed randomly for no reason, so people had no reason to complain about it anymore, it was not a "ploy" to "strengthen their position" in the least, that's just nonsense, how this is anything like with what cable companies do is beyond me, I see zero similarities.
If Nintendo truly believes that then they are hopelessly in denial, people should not be forced into making their channel Nintendo only just to have the privilege of Nintendo taking less money from them then they would for individual videos. Free publicity for their games is never a bad thing.
Well that's not true, the content ID thing mostly came about because of companies like Viacom suing Youtube over their content being available on there, the content ID system was essentially to get those companies to back off. Also Youtube needs to be changed in a number of ways, it's a big problem when ANYONE can issue a DMCA claim without any proof, and a person's channel is automatically in bad standing, there's no system put in place to ensure that the claims are verified, which had made it all too easy for game companies to abuse the system in order to censor negative videos about their games(I.E. Slaughtering Grounds creator went nuts trying to get rid of Jim Sterling's video bashing the game, and the creators of Guise of the Wolf threatened to sue Totalbiscuit over his negative video about the game after getting it taken down via false claim)
It is unreasonable when you're forcing people to pay you for the right to review your games(and like Totalbiscuit said, that's after you take into account the percentage of ad revenue that Google and the Multi-channel partner takes out, which leaves people very little motivation to ever sign up for Nintendo's program), that has unbelievably horrifying implications, we already saw how this could get out of hand with Shadow of Mordor last year, people could only talk about that game on Youtube if it was a brand-deal and they were forbidden from saying anything negative, and that was just one game. An entire gaming company enforcing a similar set of rules is beyond unacceptable and should be loudly denounced by everyone.