We knew it’s been coming for a while, the inevitable bloodbath that is lawyers diving into Twitch streams and finding any audio that could belong to a client, throwing DMCA takedowns, and otherwise shaking up the streaming scene quite a bit.
Previously Twitch streams that had copyrighted music would result in the VOD being muted throughout the playing of the music, occasionally resulting in bizarre silences that could stretch for hours as a streamer wantonly let music loop in the background to accompany whatever it is they were doing.
Some of us even started running highlights of these kinds of videos to show the next day of us talking about it all.
Well, things have moved along quite a bit and today we learned that Twitch has started taking a much firmer and stronger approach toward copyright offenders appearing on their platform (read "partners") and those who infringe copyrights and receive a DMCA takedown notice find that they are now receiving their music back over the top of a few hours—and not through Twitch's default Music option.
Note that this system is semi-sort-of automatic, but any time that a user starts playing music they receive from their public profile link they will be alerted that they have an infringement notification that has been made. This notice will ask them to participate in the appropriate process explained below, see below for details.
According to Twitch staff, the existing procedure may have been imposing on user privacy. They have since subsequently rectified this in part by using time directories so that any user actively playing music references their name or what Twitch considers their social media profile are automagically reaching a very quick date/time range to agree to theater of rights consent nonsense. This takes around 5min to one hour, which is what Anna from part of this DMCA outbreak blog of theirs told, and on top of this the music itself is overwritten for any copyrighted character due to the very same time delay for using an appropriate credit symbol.
But this issue hasn't stopped there, their video site still receive DMCA complaints that are being resolved promptly which at least shows that Twitch is going for greater volumes on piracy than the average copyright takedown.
I think a big thing they have done to help reduce this is by encouraging DMCA reports to be accessed again. Also, the system they chose for dealing with copyright filings needs make sure the copyright file is properly placed (which, because of the nature of it, would most likely be on an SD card) and all attached to the DNS. It solves three things: 1) users are notified ahead of time so they are no longer dependent on Twitch leaving their channel unlocked, 2) the system makes sure that people these days with bandwidth available to stream get their music back more quickly. 3) Twitch's bandwidth has the process of logging any download requests.
Not many remover of copyrighted content have been willing to complain directly with the folks actually working at Twitch, but what lawyer wouldn't get some satisfaction from that? But what happens when these people go to complain for the next person that
Previously Twitch streams that had copyrighted music would result in the VOD being muted throughout the playing of the music, occasionally resulting in bizarre silences that could stretch for hours as a streamer wantonly let music loop in the background to accompany whatever it is they were doing.
Some of us even started running highlights of these kinds of videos to show the next day of us talking about it all.
Well, things have moved along quite a bit and today we learned that Twitch has started taking a much firmer and stronger approach toward copyright offenders appearing on their platform (read "partners") and those who infringe copyrights and receive a DMCA takedown notice find that they are now receiving their music back over the top of a few hours—and not through Twitch's default Music option.
Note that this system is semi-sort-of automatic, but any time that a user starts playing music they receive from their public profile link they will be alerted that they have an infringement notification that has been made. This notice will ask them to participate in the appropriate process explained below, see below for details.
According to Twitch staff, the existing procedure may have been imposing on user privacy. They have since subsequently rectified this in part by using time directories so that any user actively playing music references their name or what Twitch considers their social media profile are automagically reaching a very quick date/time range to agree to theater of rights consent nonsense. This takes around 5min to one hour, which is what Anna from part of this DMCA outbreak blog of theirs told, and on top of this the music itself is overwritten for any copyrighted character due to the very same time delay for using an appropriate credit symbol.
But this issue hasn't stopped there, their video site still receive DMCA complaints that are being resolved promptly which at least shows that Twitch is going for greater volumes on piracy than the average copyright takedown.
I think a big thing they have done to help reduce this is by encouraging DMCA reports to be accessed again. Also, the system they chose for dealing with copyright filings needs make sure the copyright file is properly placed (which, because of the nature of it, would most likely be on an SD card) and all attached to the DNS. It solves three things: 1) users are notified ahead of time so they are no longer dependent on Twitch leaving their channel unlocked, 2) the system makes sure that people these days with bandwidth available to stream get their music back more quickly. 3) Twitch's bandwidth has the process of logging any download requests.
Not many remover of copyrighted content have been willing to complain directly with the folks actually working at Twitch, but what lawyer wouldn't get some satisfaction from that? But what happens when these people go to complain for the next person that
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