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[Camp Lo]

Damn, Twitch.

Is Own3d still up and running?

 

[Glass Shark]

Aren't you some kind of games journalist? Maybe you should try asking some questions like this rather than falling back on the usual pattern of acting as corporate ambassador?

First, no, I'm not a games journalist. Second, this literally just happened, and I was offering my opinion on streamers playing copyrighted music from Spotify or whatever behind gameplay. I still think that has always been a bad idea. No need to get all huffy about it.

Now that examples have been shown of this affecting gameplay without external audio... yeah, that's unequivocally crappy. Hope they get this sorted.

 

[cascardian]

Furthermore, past broadcasts will all be deleted after some time and the highlights (which are saved indefinitely) will be restricted to two hours in length. I'm sure speedrunners are loving Twitch right now.

 

[enzo_gt]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Shit just got real?

 

[Meffer]

It's always that one step...

 

[Begaria]

How long before we get epic Angry Joe meltdown videos over this?

 

[Ferrio]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Wow please be true....I wan explosions and so much backlash.

 

[Zombie James]

https://twitter.com/BazMcMahon/status/497139164794880000

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Hitbox must be getting hammered. I tried to create an account and I can't even log in.

 

[LiK]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Edit: beaten

i still see his channel. how do you know?

 

[K.Sabot]

Hitbox definitely can not handle the twitch refugees.

i still see his channel. how do you know?

His title is inciting spam on a reddit topic, so I wouldn't be surprised if he were in the future.

 

[Timeaisis]

OK, OK.

So at first I thought this was something to do with voiceover stuff, i.e. if you are listening to music over your stream and it comes through...

But now...it seems like it's a loophole to avoid copyright infringement or something? Am I understanding this right?

 

[Foffy]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Edit: beaten

Nah, he just cut his stream.

 

[Kriken]

Welp, it was fun to use Twitch while it lasted, can't wait for this to be applied to live broadcasts soon

 

[Ryuuga]

Don't buy yet, Elgato is teasing something new in a week

Thanks for the tip.

 

[Mesoian]

Damn, Twitch.

Is Own3d still up and running?

They're Hitbox now.

It's not bad.

 

[Paches]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Edit: beaten

Pretty sure he just went offline and his chat assumed that. I don't even know anymore.

 

[Haunted]

Hey, I'm not even mad about this audio bs... because I won't be able to watch vods older than 14 days anyway.

gg no re and RIP twitch.tv

 

[Mr. X]

So GTA VoDs are shit out of luck along with whatever other games include licensed music?

 

[MattPeters]

Dan was also playing with a mod that added more songs that weren't in the original release.

Oh. Im sorry, didnt know that.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Twitch just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about internet gaming culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is on Youtube where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over on the internet, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the gaming public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to partner with Twitch for sponsorship, nor will they stream any of Twitch's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Twitch has alienated an entire market with this move.

Twitch, publicly apologize and cancel this content muting bullshit or you can kiss your business goodbye.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Lol muting in game music
this is the quickest way to kill a successful business, good job there Twitch

 

[The Dear Leader]

In the words of most twitch chats... "the dream is dead BibleThump".

 

[Kouriozan]

Will LOL once GTA 5 on PS4 with Share will be muted.

 

[Distresssss]

Godspeed, Twitch.

 

[Zemm]

Oh fucking dear. Although it makes me wonder if Forsen's stream with his troll music will be safe.

 

[Coffee Dog]

Dan was also playing with a mod that added more songs that weren't in the original release.

I highly doubt that made a difference. Any game with licenced music is getting hit.

 

[G-Fex]

Cosmo just got banned from Twitch apparently..

Edit: beaten

Yeah? Wow.

Feel pretty bad for Adam AK though.

Guess this means that saltybet is done too?

 

[Basketball]

https://twitter.com/BazMcMahon/status/497139164794880000

 

[HardRojo]

30 mins for, let's say, 4 minutes of licensed music... wow... I guess this is it.

 

[Pennywise]

And this is how it ends;

Goodnight sweet prince.

 

[RE_Player]

If Hitbox becomes a serious player from the fallout of all this Twitch stuff how fast do you think we'll see PS4 and Xbox One integration?

 

[Mit-]

Should at least be able to upload unmuted footage to YouTube and let YouTube's superior content scanning handle it. If you aren't monetizing they will sometimes put a link to a song on your video instead of outright muting it.

 

[BrikHog]

So its happening? ggwp twitch

Cant wait to log in with my google+ account....

 

[Velcro Fly]

I've been watching PCULL44444 play Fallout and he just tweeted his past broadcasts of it are muted and it's been nothing but in game radio

 

[Foffy]

Lol muting in game music
this is the quickest way to kill a successful business, good job there Twitch

Considering they're migrating awful Youtube talent like Machinima, I think they're really going to try and rely on the Youtube famous on Twitch. I thought one of the biggest things on Twitch next to mobas was speedrunning, and that whole thing seems fucked by the audio and time limit on vods.

 

[Toppot]

Despite the utter shittiness of this move, I rarely watch VOD's, I mainly watch live broadcasts. So this shouldn't affect me much bar any streamers that I watch, leaving Twitch.

 

[Azure Phoenix]

Cosmo isn't banned, he stated on Twitter he just doesn't want to stream right now.
https://twitter.com/cosmowright/status/497139553115701248

 

[AmyS]

Fucking Google.

 

[Kouriozan]

https://twitter.com/BazMcMahon/status/497139164794880000

Appropriate music

 

[Camp Lo]

If Hitbox becomes a serious player from the fallout of all this Twitch stuff how fast do you think we'll see PS4 and Xbox One integration?

Wasn't there a deal with Twitch on both of those? I hope there is a backlash. Someone big needs to make the first move though.

 

[KingKong]

Isnt this more extreme than youtube? People are linking Dota 2 vods that got muted that get posted on youtube just fine

 

[StriKeVillain]

https://twitter.com/BazMcMahon/status/497139164794880000

End of an era.

;_;7

 

[Linearskillz]

The first 48 minutes of Dansgaming Fallout 3 marathon have been muted, and he only plays with ingame music.

What a joke.

What a joke indeed.

 

[RangerBAD]

I highly doubt that made a difference. Any game with licenced music is getting hit.

Yeah, I know, but I was just pointing that out.

 

[Nanashrew]

Muted entirely.

http://www.twitch.tv/zallard1/c/4605350

 

[Leafhopper]

Isnt this more extreme than youtube? People are linking Dota 2 vods that got muted that get posted on youtube just fine

I think so actually.

Muted entirely.

http://www.twitch.tv/zallard1/c/4605350

I was just looking through various speed run channels and I was hoping I wouldnt find anything

 

[Nokterian]

Seeing also from Evil Geniuses those guys only play dota 2. Also big portions muted because in-game music. This is beyond idiotic and pathetic.

 

[Revven]

Here's another example of game music being muted during a speedrun

Enjoy this great highlight where there used to be tension on getting a new run, but MTPO music is copyrighted, so nvm

Source

Amazing.

Edit: Beaten on the last page apparently.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Muted entirely.

http://www.twitch.tv/zallard1/c/4605350

hahahah