Twitch streamer sued for music copyright because of in-game sound

While the DMCA (Digital Milennium Copyright Act) caused many streamers to delete years of stream data, now streamers are facing a new problem. They were sued by the DMCA for the sound in the game. Many people tweeted that multiple sound effects had DMCA detected and muted their stream.

Events can range from birdsong and insects in Hitman: Blood Money, to police car signals in Persona 5, or men’s voices in VR game Emily Wants To Play, to wind from World of Warcraft. They cause video streams to be muted. Like adding salt to the wound, Twitch recommends that users “mute in-game” to avoid being touched by DMC.

Content creators were outraged when DMCA notices from music producers suddenly wiped out all old streams and clips. Meanwhile, support as well as communication from Twitch is very limited, forcing users to delete videos of years of effort. Twitch acknowledged the issue and apologized. According to many sources, the above sound effects are marked because they are in the sound library.

Quite humorously, streamer Ceddy “caught” the DMCA problem when he faked the Overwatch game himself.

I’m a simple streamer, if Twitch tells me to mute my in game audio, I will mute my in game audio. It’s not like I cannot make my own in game audio. Be able to adapt y’all!!!

/s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s /s pic.twitter.com/Rl4WemN4ON

— Ceddy (@CeddyOrNot) November 12, 2020

For the time being, it seems that muting is the safest way to keep your stream clip from being deleted.

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