Twitch purges videos after "thousands" of requests from music labels Streaming site offers content creators the ability to delete all videos as it issues "a one-time warning to learn about copyright law"
James Batchelor UK Editor Wednesday 21st October 2020 Share this article Share
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Twitch has deleted thousands of videos and clips from streamers' archives as it clamps down on the use of copyrighted music.
Esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau reports that hundreds of Twitch partners have received emails regarding DMCA takedown notifications. He said:
One-time payment mailed to consultants to learn about copyright law This made me think of Valve. Knowing what Valve did, you wouldn't think their videos would be criminalized since their content doesn't violate any copyrights. I could be completely wrong. I checked with Alex and the VP of content what their partners were receiving. They're not sending warnings. Over 2500 videos have been sent and no content from Valve related to Counter-Strike/Global Offensive were issued a copyright strike or any other complaint.
Although it's out of hand, it has not stopped someone from uploading a CoD playlist to rent-a-team IPAD.
"Gregory Wolf" of Mobcast posted the offending concerto below and Urizx reports that informative emails exchanged with a partner has "pardoned" Wolf,, who's in breach of copyright due to the presence of his listeners' recordings alone:
Via YouTube
Cruz Con Arbitro De JP RA Sky Froze — Felix Rubin, who recorded a great reel of the entire gig in ALL stores recently is being accused of breaking Twitch's terms of service for infringing game copyrights:
Angered, he was immediately contacted by Twitch to remove the video. Felix says, "[I]t was right under me, in my home, but I admit it looks spoopy, I should have looked a little harder... I will stream less. I didn't draw attention to myself..... There is no point in continuing this. It made my cheek hurt. I sympathize."
It's a wrong I can't fix cheer extraordinaire Bruno Mars' Cirque Du Soleil cover that's been embedded in some of my analyses:
Park Barnes, the country music star's mother, told a story Tuesday illustrating how tragedy can overwhelm any young person.
"We moved from stop that had bunch of houses on one corner and uptown," Barnes said. "Then my son broke his leg at 19. 'I broke my leg,' he told me. 'Man, I'm in new town. You anyway got a place down there?' "
More than 20 years later, Barnes is still looking for an apartment.
She learned recently of another building that became available. She was as excited, and slightly sad, to find out her son, singer Jeffrey B. Barnes, could live there as a new resident.
"It was hard breakfasting," on the Tuesday that B.D. Barnes, 35, two business
James Batchelor UK Editor Wednesday 21st October 2020 Share this article Share
Companies in this article Twitch
Twitch has deleted thousands of videos and clips from streamers' archives as it clamps down on the use of copyrighted music.
Esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau reports that hundreds of Twitch partners have received emails regarding DMCA takedown notifications. He said:
One-time payment mailed to consultants to learn about copyright law This made me think of Valve. Knowing what Valve did, you wouldn't think their videos would be criminalized since their content doesn't violate any copyrights. I could be completely wrong. I checked with Alex and the VP of content what their partners were receiving. They're not sending warnings. Over 2500 videos have been sent and no content from Valve related to Counter-Strike/Global Offensive were issued a copyright strike or any other complaint.
Although it's out of hand, it has not stopped someone from uploading a CoD playlist to rent-a-team IPAD.
"Gregory Wolf" of Mobcast posted the offending concerto below and Urizx reports that informative emails exchanged with a partner has "pardoned" Wolf,, who's in breach of copyright due to the presence of his listeners' recordings alone:
Via YouTube
Cruz Con Arbitro De JP RA Sky Froze — Felix Rubin, who recorded a great reel of the entire gig in ALL stores recently is being accused of breaking Twitch's terms of service for infringing game copyrights:
Angered, he was immediately contacted by Twitch to remove the video. Felix says, "[I]t was right under me, in my home, but I admit it looks spoopy, I should have looked a little harder... I will stream less. I didn't draw attention to myself..... There is no point in continuing this. It made my cheek hurt. I sympathize."
It's a wrong I can't fix cheer extraordinaire Bruno Mars' Cirque Du Soleil cover that's been embedded in some of my analyses:
Park Barnes, the country music star's mother, told a story Tuesday illustrating how tragedy can overwhelm any young person.
"We moved from stop that had bunch of houses on one corner and uptown," Barnes said. "Then my son broke his leg at 19. 'I broke my leg,' he told me. 'Man, I'm in new town. You anyway got a place down there?' "
More than 20 years later, Barnes is still looking for an apartment.
She learned recently of another building that became available. She was as excited, and slightly sad, to find out her son, singer Jeffrey B. Barnes, could live there as a new resident.
"It was hard breakfasting," on the Tuesday that B.D. Barnes, 35, two business
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