Twitch Users Freak Out

[Demon_Skeith]

Twitch has made some changes today. Some were pretty boring. Another, however, has a lot of people very upset.

The streaming giant has implemented audio monitoring tools similar to those used by YouTube, aimed at identifying the use of copyrighted music in archived copies of user's videos. The software will scan 30-minute sections of videos; if any unauthorised music use is detected within that block, the entire 30 minutes will be muted, even if music was only playing for ten seconds (the video itself will remain).

There's one very important caveat, though: this only applies to video-on-demand content, not live broadcasts.

Still, people are not happy, with either the move itself or the heavy-handed way it silences content. Seems that in addition to looking for music that's been overlaid, the software is also flagging the ambient and background music of the games people are actually playing.

more here

original music is always the best.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Can see why people are not the most happy with this. Not surprised it is happening though since Twitch were purchased by Google (apparently). As long as it isn't on live broadcasts I do not care too much. 

 

[Demon_Skeith]

And it's always illegal to use copyright music.

 

[IntoxNitram]

I think it would be better if they just deleted the whole broadcast rather than remove chunks of it, from an end users point of view anyway. That way people may stop using music in the live broadcasts and then the catch up feature would be friendlier for the end user.