The struggle for Twitch streamers has never been more real. Starting in October, music copyright holders started throwing “thousands” of DMCA takedown requests at Twitch, prompting the streaming platform 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to start removing vi𝕴deos by the truckload.
Twitch offered no warning, no explanation, and no appeals process before videos were removed. Some even had their livestreams taken dowꩵn due to copyrighted music in the background.
Naturally, Streamers were upset. When they asked Twitch how they could actually play games if seemingly everything was copyrighted, Twitch offered players the option of turning off in-game audio entirely as a s🌟olution.
Clearly, a silent stream save for the streamer themself isn't nearly as entertaining as a streamer speaking over a livestream broadcast of their game. And yet, Twitch seems to have sided entirely on the sid𝐆e of copyright holders and is taking little to no action to help content creators.
Case i𝕴n point, is reporting that not only are streamers and videos receiving copyright strikes for music, they're also receiving takedown notices for in-game sound effects.
The publication notes that Twitter users say they're getting DMCA strik🐬es for a variety of sounds, sucꩲh as , , , and even .
Not that copyright holders are going after sound effects too, basically no audio f🌳or any game can be played without receiving a DMCA strike. This tracks with Twitch's response to questions stating that streamers should broadcast without any in-game audio, but it's baffling that Twitch isn't even considering pushing back on copyright holders.
One Twitter user suggests the obvious solution where they get paid for their copyrighted materials while streamers are protected from lawsuits and are able to operate as they have for years. The fact that Twitch has entirely 𝓡taken the side of copyright holders is extremely confusing given the fact Twitch is backed by Amazon, the third-largest company on ♑Earth.
DMCA strikes don’t seem to be widespread enoug♍h to affect overall Twitch viewer numbers yet, but perhaps 𝔍if viewers leave the platform Twitch will finally see this as the existential threat to its business that it is.
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