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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by minimaxir on Sunday May 18, 2014 @07:12PM (#7764808)
It's much, much harder to exert copyright on live content, in contrast to YouTube's ContentID system.

Twitch has taken down streams of unreleased games (which is fair because Twitch makes this rule very explicit), but that's still on an ad hoc basis.

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by ughee on Sunday May 18, 2014 @07:15PM (#7764820)
Don't see a YouTube ownership changing that, I assume it'll still be about live streaming.
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