

Such a system is designed to prevent DMCA notices by removing potentially infringing content from VODs in advance.

Users then have the ability to appeal that muting in their dashboard. If no unlicensed audio is detected, it’s not muted. The way it works is that Audible Magic scans VODs in 30-minute chunks. In 2014, the company signed a deal with Audible Magic and uses the service to automatically mute VODs that contain unlicensed music. Twitch, for their part, acknowledged that the issue is ongoing and advised that streamers remove any old clips that may have unlicensed music in them.Ĭontrary to some early reporting, Twitch has a system for automatically identifying and muting unlicensed music in clips. This has resulted in an outpouring of anger and frustration as streamers wonder why there’s a sudden wave of notices now and for older content.

Many popular streamers have thousands of such clips and they are now worried that, should they get hit with just three DMCA notices, that they may have their account suspended or terminated. However, streamers can create highlight clips that can be saved and viewed indefinitely, referred to as VODs. The notices, which appear to have been filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), targets songs that appear in videos on demand (VODs) that are available on the site.Īt Twitch, streams are only archived for a maximum of 60 days. Over the past few days, streamers at have been hit with an influx of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices for older videos that were recorded between 20.
