YouTube has a fairly stringent approach to copyright. Were most familiar with the automated ContentID system that aggressively flags videos for copyrighted content. But intellectual property owners can also manually flag videos for violations.
Sony took manual action against a number of YouTubers simply discussing the leaked copies and the impact its having. Steven Thomas, who runs the No Mans Sky Gamer channel, posted an emotional video after getting notification of the strike.
He explains that he does not have a copy of the game and only used existing, approved footage in his video. Thomas, near tears, explains that he had plans to stream the game for 24 hours as a charity initiative supporting the Make-a-Wish foundation. Sony also issued a manual complaint against his video detailing his Patreon and the charity stream.
The video that received a strike was an archived live stream of Thomas discussing the current situation with the game, including the 1.03 update. During this livestream I gave everyone a run through of the new updates from the game's website, he told me. I also gave my thoughts and opinions. Some people would ask me that are not familiar with my channel if what I was showing is new gameplay footage or not and I would clarify to everybody, verbally, that what I was showing is of the old gameplay footage. I am FIRMLY against others violating street date and uploading gameplay prior to release without express written permission.
