Would a walkthrough of a telltale game be piracy?
How everybody knows, the latest games that telltale relesead are basically just a bunch of cutscenes and quick time events. So, here comes the question, if the core of this game is the story, Shouldn't a walkthrough of these games be piracy? Think about it...
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Wouldn't walkthrough of any other linear game be piracy?
Many games share scenes that play out the same way, those bits could be piracy too....
But, no. People make different decisions in these games, some do commentary so that adds to the uniqueness of it, etc.
You could even say that for movies:
Would watching an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 be piracy?
This is like saying a summary of a book on Wikipedia is piracy.
Not really, no. The whole appeal of playing a (modern) Telltale game is that you are supposed to feel that you are tailoring your own version of their story through the choices you are presented with. Even if most choices don't alter the story on a large scale, you still are mentally role playing what your character would do or say.
So, I don't think Telltale would really see it as that way. On the contrary, they seem to be okay with Let's Plays, considering they even give copies of the game to prominent YouTubers.
No. A "Walkthrough/Let's Play" is advertisement, not piracy. The vast majority of devs/publishers even gift early copies of their games to bigger YouTube channels. Because they know a lot of people (including myself) don't buy games anymore without taking a good look into it first.