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Those of you who are gamers should know about Nintendo. You may also know that Nintendo won't hesitate to take action against individuals or companies for copyright infringement. This time, the company is going after an individual for streaming pirated Nintendo games.

For YouTube content creators, the worst feeling is waking up one day to find a video you worked hard on taken down due to copyright claims. This usually means you'd have to edit out the copyrighted content before re-uploading. But now YouTube has a way to help you.

Nowadays, companies can use the smallest excuses to sue others. Take Nintendo, for example, a company that won't allow emulators to exist. Some have wondered when Nintendo would go after the GameBoy emulator Delta. But Adobe is the company targeting Delta this time instead of Nintendo.

With AI-generated content being the rage recently, including the new OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) had their say on such content. Its chairman, Dr Mohd Zuhan Mohd Zain stressed that AI-generated content is a violation if it resembles works registered under intellectual property in Malaysia.

Having features added to platforms isn't anything new. But if there's a domain that many are wary of, it would have to be artificial intelligence (AI). In YouTube's case, the company is allegedly working on new features for AI-generated audio tracks.

TikTok is a place full of interesting short videos, and some of them make us want to share with our followers, in case they have missed it through the scrolling. However, it is troublesome to perform the necessary as users will have to save the video and re-upload it again. Soon, it might be easier with TikTok introducing a new way to repost.