Pokimane, DrLupo and Other Twitch Partners Upset After Deleting Millions of Clips

Following DMCA regulations, streaming platform Twitch permanently deleted content of partnered streamers with copyrighted material. While doing so, they went around the counterclaim process that allowed streamers to appeal against the action. The magnitude of the crackdown was enormous, and multiple streamers lost their lives’ worth of clips and VODs. In fact, the deleted content has crossed hundreds of thousands of clips for long time streamers.

Naturally, none of these streamers are happy with Twitch’s Draconian move to enforce copyright measures. They would at least expect an appeal mechanism like one implemented on YouTube to review their content. Moreover, the ambiguous removal of content has left no room for streamers to identify what was wrong with their content.

To avoid bans and suspensions, streamers have had to delete almost all of their clips and VODs from the past.

A combined total of over millions of clips deleted by Twitch streamers

Jake Lucky from Esports talk estimates that the number of deleted clips and videos has easily crossed millions. Dr Lupo alone deleted over half a million clips and is still counting.

Joining this list are other popular streamers, like Pokimaine and xQc.

The streamers are naturally deeply upset about having to delete their collection of memories. Years worth of streams, spanning throughout their career, all gone. All due to a few lines of warning by Twitch. Fans insensitively suggested streamers to store these in hard drives or third party apps. xQc replied to one such fan saying,

“I think people can agree that having one place where everything is, where it was made, is satisfying. Easier to navigate and share with the people you enjoyed it with in the first place. Scattering everything on 3rd parties and hard drives is what I did, but it’s not the same.” 

While the issue is extremely sensitive, Myth has tried to find a ray of hope in the gloom. He wants to use his as an opportunity for streamers to fire up their creative spirits and find a more permanent solution to the problem.

This is a perfect solution for the streamers’ fight against big music labels while enjoying the process.