In a massive blow to both preservation of game content and streaming archives, new Twitch rules have resulted in the deletion for hundreds of streamers for their archived content, in what Twitch is terming compliance with the DMCA.
It is yet another attack in what is no doubt forceful pressure from the music industry. The reasons for these DMCA’s is simple; copyrighted music. Simply put, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has long been going after Twitch Streamers due to music copyrights, and in response, Twitch has sent out hundreds of emails to streamers – some of which are Twitch partners – that they would be removing content that would violate the music copyrights.
Users on Twitch were not given any penalties for the removal of their work, but also did not allow any counter-claims to the takedown. What’s worse, this may be the norm going forward when it comes to…
