Twitch music streaming rules

I heard that Google bought Twitch and one of the rules is that players can't play their music while playing a game.

I don't get this, why is it illegal for someone to play a random music of youtube or the radio while streaming a game.

What if I have the radio streaming while I'm streaming a game. Now streaming the radio is illegal? what?


Can someone shed some light on this?

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

It's just the music business being greedy nothing else really...

It's not like people go "hey I wanna listen to some music lemme go to twitch"

Also partly Googles fault by buying Twitch as they now got so big that they will be sued for sure, where before it wasn't really worth suing them.

We can just hope the rules change in the future but don't hold your breath.

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Tuskey wrote:

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

Wait, wait. Let me understand this. If I'm watching a live stream and a dude is streaming a game while also playing a music that is ok.

However if I go 1 day later to that stored video to check something and naturally the music was playing...then all sudden that is considered illegal?

Have I got the gist of it?

Here are some videos that explain it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99jrkp0XDeQ&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1DVG8ZJAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D53nzQTjpQ&list=UU4mLMb49hqk4y9lVFtfanlg

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Warmey wrote:

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Tuskey wrote:

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

Wait, wait. Let me understand this. If I'm watching a live stream and a dude is streaming a game while also playing a music that is ok.

However if I go 1 day later to that stored video to check something and naturally the music was playing...then all sudden that is considered illegal?

Have I got the gist of it?

Right..basically because it is stored at that point, so essentially you could just listen to it infinitely. Which makes no sense really, because youtube. But yea if you go to your favorite streamers page, look at some of their old recorded videos, chances are that they are muted. I watch Hegemoney stream a lot, and he does rap cover songs for donations. Some of his cover songs are muted now because the whole copyright issue.

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Warmey wrote:

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Tuskey wrote:

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

Wait, wait. Let me understand this. If I'm watching a live stream and a dude is streaming a game while also playing a music that is ok.

However if I go 1 day later to that stored video to check something and naturally the music was playing...then all sudden that is considered illegal?

Have I got the gist of it?

No, what happens is that twitch just mutes portions of the stored video in half-hour blocks if it detects copyrighted music playing without permission (this is just for saved videos, not for watching the live stream).

This shouldn't effect streams with the game's music playing, just people who play other music while they're playing, so this really isn't a big deal. Eventually the streamers will stop playing music during their streams and the watchers will just listen to their own music in itunes or WMP or whatever.

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Warmey wrote:

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Tuskey wrote:

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

Wait, wait. Let me understand this. If I'm watching a live stream and a dude is streaming a game while also playing a music that is ok.

However if I go 1 day later to that stored video to check something and naturally the music was playing...then all sudden that is considered illegal?

Have I got the gist of it?

If the music is not in-game music, or if the streamer does not have permission to play it, then it is illegal while they are streaming it in the first place. The VoDs being muted is just them removing the illegally streamed music after the fact.

Any idea how sensitive the content filters are? I can see them easily picking up popular songs--but what if I stream, say, BSG soundtracks in the background? And what happens if, since I stream PoE, it picks up that music and mutes it?

Grrrrrr.

EDIT: I get distracted while writing posts. XD Thanks for the explanations re:in-game music.

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Tuskey wrote:

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Warmey wrote:

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Tuskey wrote:

It doesn't effect what you play while actually streaming. It only pertains to vod's. You can't have any copyrighted music on any vod's without the artist permission, or your audio will be muted for that vod.

Wait, wait. Let me understand this. If I'm watching a live stream and a dude is streaming a game while also playing a music that is ok.

However if I go 1 day later to that stored video to check something and naturally the music was playing...then all sudden that is considered illegal?

Have I got the gist of it?

Right..basically because it is stored at that point, so essentially you could just listen to it infinitely. Which makes no sense really, because youtube. But yea if you go to your favorite streamers page, look at some of their old recorded videos, chances are that they are muted. I watch Hegemoney stream a lot, and he does rap cover songs for donations. Some of his cover songs are muted now because the whole copyright issue.

shiit that's dumb. I mean seriously.