"Twitch Trimming Archives & Muting Copyrighted Music"
I never really cared all that much about Twitch before, and I'm not going to start now, thanks to stuff like this. I just wonder if this sudden move has anything to do with them potentially being bought by Google. (EDIT) Looks like the deal did go through, so I'm pretty sure that this is indeed related to that. (/EDIT) I will say that this is just yet another example of the need to fix horribly broken and outdated copyright laws and/or the software that is supposedly intended to enforce them.
(EDIT 2) Thing is... everyone is blaming Google for this, as though Google is the mastermind behind all of this crap. Google is only (over)reacting, that's all. While it's true that Google is indeed doing a terribly piss poor job at implementing their copyright protection software, the main reason they're even doing so in the first place is so that they won't become a target of the excessively sue-happy dinosaurs in the music industry (or so they hope). So if you're going to blame anyone, blame the RIAA. And blame government for letting laws be written by the lobbyists for such. (/EDIT 2)
(EDIT 2) Thing is... everyone is blaming Google for this, as though Google is the mastermind behind all of this crap. Google is only (over)reacting, that's all. While it's true that Google is indeed doing a terribly piss poor job at implementing their copyright protection software, the main reason they're even doing so in the first place is so that they won't become a target of the excessively sue-happy dinosaurs in the music industry (or so they hope). So if you're going to blame anyone, blame the RIAA. And blame government for letting laws be written by the lobbyists for such. (/EDIT 2)