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Twitch Streamers Protest DMCA Takedowns With Absurd No-Music Gameplay – PCMag AU
Streamers are creating their own sound effects and testing their vocal chops in a bid to skirt copyright claims.
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What’s a Twitch stream without any music? Some of the site’s streamers demonstrated the absurdity of silent streams recently after a slew of DMCA takedown requests resulted in Twitch deleting thousands of clips and ordering players to avoid popular music.
Content creators have recently seen videos lost or muted as “representatives for the major record labels started sending thousands of DMCA notifications each week,” according to Twitch. Before May, Twitch said it handled “fewer than…
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