What do YouTube's "Let's Play" Takedowns Mean For Machinima?

I'm guessing it must be either better monetisation of their ads or better network effects, but I might be wrong?

They already host previous live recordings so I would think they could at least leverage that to offer pre-recorded videos.

He only had 1 Minecraft video taken down. His intro music (not content from Mojang) was flagged, even though he had a license to use it. (The bot doesn't know about licenses). He Most other games have copyrighted background music. Even games that he was invited to play and record by the publishers were flagged because the bot finds the music in the background. He is filing counter-notices, but they must be filled out individually -- even if the same song is tagged in all 50 episodes of a series. Most go away, but when they are sustained, that is a strike against the account. Too many strikes bans a channel. The larger channels, like Doc's, have contacts at YouTube. They can get their channels reinstated, but smaller channels have a harder time.

Still, it's great to see the games companies lining up to allow Let's Plays, Machinima, and similar uses of their content. Definitely a positive that's come out of the whole affair.