The fact that copyright holders are sending DMCA strikes for people who are listening to music during their stream is absurd. It's commercially absurd. It's ethically absurd and its practically absurd.

First of all the behaviour by publishers is completely against their own interests and is completely ignorant of how people consume content on the internet. This isn't surprising given that these industries are essentially dominated by boomer dinosaurs who used to sell us CDs at 30 dollars a pop (30 dollars in the 90s).

Now we can access any song we want with a click of a button. Most publishers provide a way for us to listen to their music, be it Spotify or Youtube. It's in fact really convenient and you can get many excellent versions of the same track, and the publisher gets their view.

This is how I and most people consume music on the Internet. We do not play discrete CDs, and so forth.

One way I am very certain that users do not consume music specifically is by seeking through mine or anyone elses's) twitch archive to look and listen to that song, which is probabbly mixed with in game sounds. Who the **** would do that?

So that leads me to question where is the copyright danger here?

There isn't one. This is a case of a law firm doing busy work to get paid by large copyright holders that don't really have a grasp of their accounts or their industry.

But this practice actually hurts artists and by extension their puiblishers. Why?

Because people don't get to hear their music. My generation, and the previous one tell me the same, that we don't get our music from advertising very much. Music is spread by word of mouth and by ear - a rewvolutionary concept for an aural medium.

The use of these aggressive DMCA tactics by poorly configured automated bots commissioned by lawyers who don't understand the tech or the industry is inherently self-destructive because it takes money away from sales and artists - the primary function of a music publishing business; and gives it to law firms who suppress content - and by extension sales.

Finally, the use of music in conujunction with a game stream or clips is arguably transformative. The pairing of msuic with action or visuals completely transforms and can add entirely different meaning to the work. It also can add a completely new emotional dimension.

The pairing of music in films and in advertisements is demonstrative of this. Unfortunately content creators aren't often in ap osition to challenge the perversions of U.S copyright law often enacted by large unethical companies such as music publishers and movie studios. I mean, these are studios who employed serial rapists and Nazis, but they can be trusted when it comes to copyright?

I don't think so.

One would hope that Twitch has enough market leverage now to sit down with these publishers and say: "Hey, we think you are hurting yourselves here and this "problem" is an opportunity in disguise"

Instead of removing the music, use technology to link viewers to the copyright material on youtube; link them to where they can buy it or listen to it on Google Play/Spotify etc.

That would take much less effort than this silly game of smashing their own content and silencing the free advertising/ word of mouth about their own *** products*.

I listen to music when I play, that's just the honest experience of watching me play. I don't do it for viewers, I just do it because twitch is a convenient source for uploading replays. I don't have the tools or the time to remove audio; and I'm not going to not listen to the music I don't like and own, in my own home, because Sony get upset when someone listens to one of their pedophiles on Youtube's quickplay by accident.