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I find it puzzling that stuff like this is allowed to continue while Nintendo tries to remove gameplay videos on Youtube.

I'm glad people do it. Just curious about the legal considerations.

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I think its a combination of A: they don't know which credentials are being used; B: While figuring it out would be somewhat trivial, it still requires effort to set up tracking for it; and C: We're not doing anything nefarious with it, challenging Nintendo's intellectual property, committing piracy, or using it to upload illegal content. As a reminder, Nintendo does not own the copyright on the courses uploaded to its servers. The creators do. By using SMM2, they grant Nintendo a non-exclusive license to use their courses in the game. Non-exclusive

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