MADRID, 22 Feb. (Portaltic/EP) –
The live broadcasting platform Twitch cut off metallica audio in the middle of his performance at BlizzCon last Friday to avoid a copyright lawsuit and replaced it with folk music.
The conference BlizzCon, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, was held on Friday, February 19 in digital format, under the name Blizzconline, through the official Blizzard channel, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, IGN and Gamespot (in English) and through the Blizzard channel and YouTube in Spanish.
As reported by the company in September, BlizzCon would be a “online show” and in its presentation on Friday, the conference featured a live performance by the American group Metallica.
During the Metallica broadcast on Twitch, at the close of the event, the platform (owned by Amazon) cut the audio in the middle of the interpretation of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, one of the great successes of the band, for copyright reasons, and replaced live audio with royalty-free folk music.
The first to report this music change in the middle of the Twitch live was the ‘eSports’ analyst Rod Breslau on his Twitter account, who avoided publishing the full video also due to ‘copyright’. However, another Twitter user, Moy, posted a longer video where Twitch could be seen cutting the song live and playing folk music.
I have a longer clip with Metallica playing and the Twitch production team transitioning seamlessly into the 8bit music but i’m afraid to post in fear of DMCA myself. good work music industry you bunch of ghouls
— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 20, 2021
Many Twitch users have criticized the platform’s position for avoid DMCA copyright lawsuits (‘Digital millennium Copyright Act’), la federal law governing copyright in the United States.
However, on other platforms like YouTube users were able to listen to the entire Metallica performance without music breaks. In fact, the video of the Blizzconline opening ceremony, available on the Blizzard channel, shows a warning to copyrighted content as the performance is about to begin.
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