You just hate to see it.
The Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch made a mess of things Friday during a livestream, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer band. Specifically, Metallica, known for (among other things) its 2000 lawsuit against the music-sharing service Napster, was streaming a concert for Blizzard Entertainment’s annual news event, BlizzCon, when Twitch Gaming dubbed over the heavy metal with what sounded like elevator music.
the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee
— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021 Read more…
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