Samzorz and Twitch’s Muting Prerogative – When we saw former MLG gamer and Twitch star Samzorz (over 33K followers) at Comic Con he was asked about Google potentially buying Twitch. His biggest fear at that time was the removal of background music from his streams. “Otherwise all you hear is a whole lot of shooting”, is what he said. Samzorz (who makes a significant amount of his income via Twitch) fear has has come true – but with a twist. slot gacor
Twitch has voluntarily partnered with Audible Magic with no involvement from Google (yet). Audible Magic which works closely with the recorded music industry is used to scan streams for ambient music. When music is detected (even in-game music) at least 30 minutes of the effected stream is muted. In other words Audible Magic *hates* music. Ok the real reason as we all know is music rights. www.creeksidelandsinn.com
It appears Twitch is trying to get it’s house in order (legally) to be more attractive to a buyer such as Google. Twitch probably does not have deep pockets that make it a target for the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), but Google has plenty of cash and a previous history with the RIAA.
For now only VOD (video on demand) files are effected, not live content. But this will still effect an enormous amount of content on Twitch. Some of the muted content contains high profile events such as Valve’s Dota 2 tournament The International 4, and Twitch’s own weekly gaming show, Twitch Weekly. sbobet
Google is widely rumored to be in negotiations to buy Twitch and access to the 45 million viewers per month, for somewhere near 1 billion (US) dollars.
Reaction to the new policy has been predictably upsetting to many viewers, and even some of the musicians. Gamespot has reported an influx of new members at Hitbox, a competing service.
Wired also noted that Twitch is using Audible Magic’s service for copyright enforcement, why are they not using Google’s own Content ID system instead.
