State of twitch - yesterday, a surprise email came to my inbox on gmail

[Dwood]

It talked about musical takedowns, licenses, and even music that's in the background!

Reddit's been furious over the issue, and right now the ama is turning into quite the rodeo:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2cwfu2/i_am_twitch_ceo_emmett_shear_ask_me_almost/

Also much stuff is being said that the user base is actively calling for a switch to a new competitor such as hitbox.tv or another one.

It's been great watching this whole episode come forward with. Bowl of popcorn!

[Kornman00]

Yeah, the Rocksmith twitch has most of its videos muted it seems due to twitch being a content bitch. With the google buyout, I bet more google account nonsense will follow as well. But I hope instead the population at twitch causes a shift to another competitor, leaving google with a worthless sack of shit.

[Dwood]

Yeah, the Rocksmith twitch has most of its videos muted it seems due to twitch being a content bitch. With the google buyout, I bet more google account nonsense will follow as well. But I hope instead the population at twitch causes a shift to another competitor, leaving google with a worthless sack of shit.

Yeah, I've been trying to distance myself from google products, but each time they come out with a compelling product to try >_>. (I got in on the Google Domains beta, let's see how that goes)

There's been that mass exodus to hitbox.tv, whose servers were essentially getting raped the past few days. I managed to sign up today, as well, it seems, as a large number of other users. check it out. http://www.hitbox.tv/

[Zeph]

Lets get mad at shitty handling of VoDs at a streaming site.
Likewise, get mad at shitty handling of streams at a VoD site.
Twitch doesn't want to hold onto saved video and only offers it as a bonus.

The thing you should really get mad about is the various industries not caring about DMCA legitimacy and just aggressively attacking services that can theoretically allow infringement.

[Dwood]

Thing is, there's no evidence of any company issuing a DMCA takedown notice for a stream or for the site. There's no news of a suit against twitch or anything.

My problem is that they instantly slapped the users with this stuff. SURPRISE! Your videos are muted thirty minutes at a time! No warning email. No way to certify that you have a license to play the music publicly (spotify business, pandora one) and even more.

That, aaaand, it mutes games for in-game music (?????) and BACKGROUND SOUNDS! ???? I mean, come on. Necrodancer games were muted because of the music- how did the music get into their database anyway? (The devs for the game were even consulting their lawyers concerning this)