LogFAQs > #948613788

This bipartisan, consensus legislation will provide the Department of Justice with the authority to bring felony charges against a digital transmission service that:
-is primarily designed or provided for the purpose of streaming copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or
-has no commercially significant purpose or use other than to stream copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or
-is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in streaming copyrighted works without the authority of the copyright owner or the law.

Twitch is screwed since there is no explicit "authority of the copyright owner" with video games. It'd literally have to be a case by case basis, which isn't going to happen unless publishers start putting it in writing in EULAs or whatever. And since it's targeted at the platforms themselves and not the individual users, based on how Twitch handled DMCA, there is a very good chance Twitch just bails.

And given how companies like Atlus have already handled streaming, I don't have faith they're going to suddenly welcome it.

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Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996
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