Effluvial Ooze
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If twitch doesn't really slap somebody on the wrist for this (more than suspending them for 2 days), it's likely they'll find themselves in a similar situation to ISPs. In 2019, major labels banded together and have successfully sued Cox and Charter for billions for piracy. The ISPs would typically be protected from liability for the actions of their users, but the labels were able to pull up tens of thousands of emails alerting both the ISP and the users of illegal activity. It was the lack of strong punishment that lost them the case. With twitch, it has clearly been a longstanding issue and they just ignore when their cash cow streamers break TOS. These streamers were pushed onto the front page while doing it. Their top streamer streamed the fucking Olympics for free a few months ago. You know how long he was suspended? 5 hours. Pokimane sat down and ate ate and made funny faces occasionally while Avatar played for 10 hours. It's virtually impossible she didn't know it was against DMCA law and if Viacom really wanted to they could most likely completely fuck twitch. Especially if it comes out that Twitch was warned.0I do agree. I hate corporations and wish that fair use/copyright law were changed. But until that law IS changed, they're just giving the companies ammunition in order to destroy the website they're streaming from. And the more brazenly they violate it, the more and more corps will take notice. Which is why I wish one person were made a REAL example of so as to dissuade others to stop, rather than having the site as a whole be DMCA'd.
CohhCarnage said it best I think:
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And really, this. The big streamers are for the most part are already rich. And they are just being lazy and raking in even more money. When all is said and done, they'll have made some stupid easy cash and the rest of the site will be fucked to deal with the fallout of this.
YouTube's next streaming update will allegedly add gift subs, raids, chat moderation tools and support for bttv esque emotes. It might just be an objectively better platform than twitch in a few months anyways.
Fucking copyright law drives me crazy. At least with the old dmca system, they just slapped ads on your video that paid the ip holder or muted some of it. It's bullshit but there's logic behind it. Does anybody involved even 'win' with this DFE system? People can't even play half the games out today on stream without scrambling to mute them when a song starts because it could strike them.