I don't get what Twitch is supposed to do though. They are forced to act on the DMCA complains or they can get sued/fined into oblivion and working some kind of deal with the different music industry majors where they pay a set sum or percentage feels like being the victim of a racket.
In a rational world, any music that happen during the normal game play should fall into fair use and streamers that use background music should pay a blanket license in the same way restaurants do.
I still maintain that it should fall under fair use.False.
In a normal world, the vast majority of the music that is being played would have fallen out of copyright 10 years after it was created and, thus, would have no claim under DMCA. There would then be a blanket license for anything still in the 10 year copyright window.
I'm sympathetic to the argument that artists should be able to collect royalties for public playing of their music while someone else makes money, but only for a limited time.I still maintain that it should fall under fair use.
I'm sympathetic to the argument that twitch should no longer have safe harbor protections with how aggressive it is trying to do advertising over top of streamers, disrupting their content while trying to circumvent watcher's browser protections exactly like malware. Very far removed from "merely hosting content"
I wonder if they're able to tell that I mute the stream and switch to another tab the moment an ad starts
Yeah, they can tell if a stream is muted and it won't count for certain "view" metrics. However if you don't mute it and mute the tab, it still counts as a full "view".
There are some websites that will stop a video when you switch tabs, I'm pretty sure if they can detect it, they can report it back to the host.I wonder if they're able to tell that I mute the stream and switch to another tab the moment an ad starts