[Oni]

Twitch has recently started going after channels for playing music. There's been some concern in the community due to recent strikes issued. I moderate for a few large/medium sized streams off to the side, so it's pertinent to me.

Over the weekend, many streamers discovered an unpleasant surprise in their inboxes: an email from Twitch saying they’d received one or more copyright strikes on clips from their streams. If streamers receive three strikes, they risk an indefinite ban. The problem? The offending clips were not recent, but streamers hadn’t received any previous indication that there were ticking time bombs in their archives.

After numerous streamers reported late last week and over the weekend that their clips had received the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) treatment thanks to copyright claims from an entity claiming to represent the Recording Industry Association of America, Twitch clarified what happened in a post on Twitter.

“This week, we’ve had a sudden influx of DMCA takedown requests for clips with background music from 2017-19,” the company wrote. “This is the first time we have received mass DMCA claims against clips. We understand this has been stressful for affected creators and are working on solutions, including examining how we can give you more control over your clips.”

DMCA claims exist in part to protect big companies and platforms from being held directly liable when individuals break copyright rules. This means, on one hand, that users can post what they want, rather than platforms having to put a blanket ban on all sorts of content that could be illegal, but it also forces companies to remove offending content as soon as its claimed, for fear of legal reprisal, and saddle repeat offenders with sterner consequences.

Source: https://kotaku.com/after-massive-dmca-ta...1843954430

[mothered]

This was bound to happen sooner or later.

I'm actually surprised they didn't take action earlier.

[Oni]

This was bound to happen sooner or later.

I'm actually surprised they didn't take action earlier.

I agree. Musicians want their piece of the pie, no matter how you look at it.

[mothered]

Although It's not a streaming service, I don't know how The Pirate Bay manages to remain online.

It still provides a gateway to music (and of course other content), yet authorities fail to take It down.

[Jiggly]

This was bound to happen sooner or later.

I'm actually surprised they didn't take action earlier.

I agree. Musicians want their piece of the pie, no matter how you look at it.

Even if it's not the musicians themselves - those record labels will take every penny they can get.

I hope twitch finds a good way around this. The amazon music plugin seems to be a good option. But this only works for people who have amazon music.