Twitch CEO Says “We Screwed Up” Policy Announcement

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Although Twitch's CEO did say his company "screwed up" the policy change announcement yesterday, he didn't say anything about changing things back.

“We have absolutely no intention of flagging songs due to original in-game music,” he said. “If that’s happening (and it appears it is), it’s a problem and we will investigate and try to fix it. … No matter how remote you might feel the issue is, we aren’t willing to run the risk someone’s life gets ruined over this.”
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Fixed!!

“Simply put: We screwed up because we were counting our Google money and should have announced it ahead of time, like Stickam did” Shear said. “Sorry. Now back to dreaming about how I will spend my millions!
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chockomonkey said:
Someone's life could get ruined over this?
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My thought as well.

I understand why they would flag copyrighted music, but if someone is posting themselveslaying a game, then the music playing in said game would obviously have to be excluded, or it would be annoying.

Maybe I don't fully understand what Twitch is (never heard of it before today, but from context it appears to be some sort of gamer-oriented video service?) But I fail to understand how anyone's life could be ruined.

Someone might get annoyed at a missing or muted video, but that's hardly the end of the world...
 
chockomonkey said:
Someone's life could get ruined over this?
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Many of the live streamers for example in the League of Legends community make a living from this. They are "professional" gamers and "athletes" and the content they create generates ad revenue and subscriptions. They make more money a year than most people by just playing video games. I wonder what they will do when people no longer care about that specific game; will they be able to adapt to other games and be as successful?

I am not a fan of Riot or how they handle their toxic community but they've been brilliant at making "e-sports" mainstream.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041010880 said:
My thought as well.

I understand why they would flag copyrighted music, but if someone is posting themselveslaying a game, then the music playing in said game would obviously have to be excluded, or it would be annoying.

Maybe I don't fully understand what Twitch is (never heard of it before today, but from context it appears to be some sort of gamer-oriented video service?) But I fail to understand how anyone's life could be ruined.

Someone might get annoyed at a missing or muted video, but that's hardly the end of the world...
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Well if their video is muted then they can't export it to Youtube as nobody is going to watch a muted video. They may even have issues downloading it and exporting it to Youtube. Here is a livestream of one of the broadcaster's "gaming house". These guys make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year broadcasting. Twitch should have given prior notice before muting the Video on Demand many of the streamers count on.
 
zerodamage said:
Many of the live streamers for example in the League of Legends community make a living from this. They are "professional" gamers and "athletes" and the content they create generates ad revenue and subscriptions. They make more money a year than most people by just playing video games. I wonder what they will do when people no longer care about that specific game; will they be able to adapt to other games and be as successful?

I am not a fan of Riot or how they handle their toxic community but they've been brilliant at making "e-sports" mainstream.
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Ahh,

That was the part I was missing.

I've never understood professional gaming, and never felt the urge to watch other people play games, but in the context of this being how they make their living it makes a little bit more sense.
 
chockomonkey said:
Someone's life could get ruined over this?
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I think he is suggesting that a copyright lawsuit could be directed at streamers just for having videos that play copyrighted music. They are taking this action to prevent their streamers from potentially getting in trouble, supposedly.
 
CorruptedOne said:
I think he is suggesting that a copyright lawsuit could be directed at streamers just for having videos that play copyrighted music. They are taking this action to prevent their streamers from potentially getting in trouble, supposedly.
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I have a hard time believing a game company would pursue a lawsuit like this for people just streaming the games they are playing, and risk alienating their user base, but with the likes of Origin/EA out there I guess nothing would surprise me...
 
zerodamage said:
Many of the live streamers for example in the League of Legends community make a living from this. They are "professional" gamers and "athletes" and the content they create generates ad revenue and subscriptions. They make more money a year than most people by just playing video games. I wonder what they will do when people no longer care about that specific game; will they be able to adapt to other games and be as successful?

I am not a fan of Riot or how they handle their toxic community but they've been brilliant at making "e-sports" mainstream.
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"athletes".... lol wut?:confused:
 
Content ID doesn't work, that's the problem. I've had two flagged videos on YouTube. One was flagged for music that didn't even belong to the company making the claim and the other was my kid riding a bike while a bunch of other kids were screaming in the background by some media company I never heard of
 
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