On: Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

[thomastjeffery]

> but big chunks of their recordings are muted because they play copyrighted music.

It's ridiculous that Twitch mutes audio, even if it's only a few seconds. Fair use is being totally ignored.

[Alex3917 → thomastjeffery]

> Fair use is being totally ignored.

It might be fair use for the streamer, but it almost certainly isn’t for Twitch.

[thomastjeffery → Alex3917]

That's nonsense.

What you are saying is that Fair Use cannot be utilized, because the hosting company is somehow violating copyright.

That is the same nonsensical logic that is used against MegaUpload and bittorrent; the same nonsensical logic that Youtube's Content Protection system is based on; the same nonsensical logic that drives DRM.

The world is not better when copyright holders are able to compel a third party to win their disputes. Unfortunately, that is the world we live in.