You may remember Meyers Leonard as the one guy who stood during the National Anthem during the NBA bubble last summer. He claimed at the time it wasn’t due to a lack of respect or dismissal of Black Lives Matter, but an attempt to thread a needle apparently only he could see. Somehow he was […]
Uhhh, this is kind of comical! For Blizzcon on February 19, Metallica streamed their music live over Twitch. But it did not go off without a hitch. During the virtual concert, the platform got scared they’d face copyright issues, so they played some random 8-bit tunes over the top of the musicians rocking out. In […]
Enlarge / Photo illustration of the Twitch logo on a smartphone. (credit: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) On Wednesday, an automated alert about Twitch account bans included a somewhat surprising account name: “@DonaldTrump.” The surprise came because Twitch had already “indefinitely suspended” the former president’s official Twitch channel on January 7, in the wake of […]
Enlarge (credit: Gootecks / YouTube) One of the oldest and most popular global emotes on Twitch has been removed from the service after Twitch said “the face of the emote encourag[ed] further violence after what took place in the Capitol [Wednesday].” That face belongs to Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, a longtime Street Fighter pro and commentator. […]
Expand / / Photo example of this Twitch emblem on a smart phone. (charge: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) As a part of a crackdown on”sexually concentrated terms” on its own platform, Twitch says conditions such as”simp,””incel,” along with also”virgin” will shortly be prohibited when employed as insults by streamers or even chatters on the […]
Even the Federal Trade Commission is stepping up its electronic solitude work, and it has asked only about every significant social networking platform you can imagine to describe what personal information it collects from customers, and the reason why. The requests for information went {} to nine programs (or their parent firms, where relevant ), […]
Expand / / Fortunately you can not hear this picture –it could lead to a DMCA attack if you can. (charge: Epic Games) Epic Games and Twitch are warning streamers who broadcast throughout Fortnite‘s season-ending Marvel-crossover”Nexus War” event the night they could want to substitute their VOD clips to prevent the possibility of DMCA copyright […]
Expand / / Photo case of this Twitch emblem on a smart phone. (charge: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) Twitch now listened to customers for how it managed a copyright crackdown a month, however, the website still told streamers they might need to quit using copyrighted records to prevent additional takedown notices. Twitch–the most favorite […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) Streaming platform Twitch this week surprised most of its customers as it shipped out a massive heap of copyright takedown mails. These messages not only did not tell streamers what allegedly infringing content that they submitted, but in addition, it stated that Twitch had deleted content blatant […]