"Twitch Trimming Archives & Muting Copyrighted Music"

[kane_magus]

I never really cared all that much about Twitch before, and I'm not going to start now, thanks to stuff like this. I just wonder if this sudden move has anything to do with them potentially being bought by Google. (EDIT) Looks like the deal did go through, so I'm pretty sure that this is indeed related to that. (/EDIT) I will say that this is

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[owsf2000]

Yeah, what they're doing there is basically making it conform with what Google has on youtube, which will do takedowns and/or mute the audio of videos claimed to be infringing on something or other.

[kane_magus]

"Twitch CEO confirms audio scanning and muting won't be added to livestreams"

...for the moment.

[owsf2000]

""We want every broadcaster on Twitch to be protected from potential liability," he said. "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

[kane_magus]

Even now, streamed stuff isn't safe, at least not on Youtube (and, consequently, not on Twitch anymore). I saw a comment on one of the previous articles where someone pointed out that a live stream of a convention was killed by Youtube because the people in the crowd started singing "Happy Birthday." So, really, all they'd need to do to implement it on streams is to just hook every stream on the service into whatever they're using to detect copyrighted music, and then, if they detect the beginnings of such a song on that stream, kill the stream altogether.

The sheer fact that the goddamned Happy fucking Birthday song is apparently still in copyright is one of the very best examples of what is so utterly fucked up about copyright, in general. (Though that may not be the case for much longer, hopefully, at least for this one particular song.)