Discussion

• @twitch @twitch on x

  Your frustration and confusion with recent music-related copyright issues is completely justified. Things can-and should-be better for creators than they have been recently. The next few tweets will outline our plan for being better partners to creators. https://blog.twitch.tv/..…

• @botherder Nex on x

  The takedown of youtube-dl from GitHub seems to be symptomatic of an ongoing DMCA onslaught by RIAA and the US music industry, which is heavily affecting content creators on Twitch too: https://blog.twitch.tv/...

• @twitch @twitch on x

  Three days was simply not enough time for most creators to sort through all their VODs and Clips. We should have developed more sophisticated and user-friendly tools long ago. To all the creators who lost their community's best moments, we're sorry. This shouldn't have happened.

• @justinwong Justin Wong on x

  Twitch went from <1 DMCA notice per week to thousands in May. They sat on them for 5 months before releasing en masse, giving creators 3 days to scan, archive, and delete up to 9 years of streams with no way to identify infringing content. Then took 3 weeks to write a blog post: …

• @themavshow @themavshow on x

  A thread 💜 hang in there creators https://twitter.com/...

• @jakenbakelive @jakenbakelive on x

  I have a dream where Twitch will fight alongside creators for change to these archaic laws. Then Twitch will go down in history as the platform that changed the internet and saved the creators. Maybe it's just a dream.. https://twitter.com/...

• @pt Parker on x

  Good computer scientists w/ good management would've stripped just the audio offensive to the RIAA. Good capitalists would invite artists to PAY THEM for promotion and provide a catalog to streamers for free to further monetize streams. This has been an unmitigated disaster. http…

• @leonlush Leon Lush on x

  I'm not sure what's worse the labels for trying to destroy an entire community of creators b/c greed or twitch for how badly they fumbled this situation. https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  This is astounding because not only is Twitch admitting it was unprepared for DMCA requests in 2020 but their advice to streamers is to delete all videos with copyrighted music. 😱 Even YouTube has mute audio & replace audio options. Twitch is treating their community terribly. ht…

• @larawithabird @larawithabird on x

  This is like an abusive partner coming back again and again saying ‘sorry, I should have done better’. It still also manages to blame and gaslight creators with the ‘get a license’ line. A perfectly constructed piece of nothing. https://blog.twitch.tv/...

• @paladinamber @paladinamber on x

  Wait wait wait I know you didn't just say the best way moving forward is to just continue to delete content? An actual agreement needs to be made? if I happen to accidentally walk past a shop front in a game that's playing an absolute banger I don't want to have to delete - https…

• @nycfurby @nycfurby on x

  Don't play music ppl https://twitter.com/...

• @jasonsulli @jasonsulli on x

  TLDR everything is the same. Good luck out there. https://twitter.com/...

• @fightfortheftr @fightfortheftr on x

  maybe shutting down people in the middle of streaming because of some music playing in the background just isn't a great idea to begin with? who does this benefit? no one. https://twitter.com/...

• @twitch @twitch on x

  Our full blog post includes far more details, but there are two main things you can do to avoid music-related DMCA takedowns. 1: Don't play recorded music during streams, and 2: Delete VODs and clips that might have recorded music in them if you're unsure about the rights.

• @twitch @twitch on x

  We were as surprised by the number of music-related DMCA takedowns as you were. Before May, we received fewer than 50 per year. Now, we're receiving thousands each week. This led to the warning email some of you received in October.