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Twitch has filed a lawsuit against perpetrators who were allegedly using Twitch’s service for “hate raids”. This action definitely shows the Twitch is aware of the “hate raids”. It is unclear whether or not the result of the lawsuit will actually improve the experience of people who stream on Twitch. A “raid” is a feature where a streamer, who is
Twitch streamers have recently been facing takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). According to The Verge, he claimant was the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It appears that the RIAA is going after clips, some of which may have been created several years ago. It appears that Twitch was taken by surprise by the takedown requests. Twitch
As you may have heard, Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja, has left Twitch and is now streaming exclusively on Mixer. It seems that Twitch is unhappy about that. Engadget reported that Twitch used Ninja's dormant Twitch channel to promote other streamers, including one that was NSFW (not safe for work). Engadget reported that esports consultant Rod Breslau observed that the
Twitter has permanently suspended the accounts of Alex Jones and Infowars. This decision comes after several other companies, including Facebook, Spotify, Apple, Google, and Stitcher removed some or all of the content from Alex Jones and Infowars from their websites and apps. On August 7, 2018, Jack Dorsey tweeted a thread explaining why Twitter did not suspend Alex Jones. The
Scott Ertz interviews Marc Todd about the Skreens HDMI video mixing box. The concept of the skreens video mixing box is that it takes multiple HDMI sources such as an X-Box, Roku, Apple TV, etc. and mixes it in user-configurable windows on a single large screen via HDMI. The individual video screen input sizes are controlled in real-time via iPad