Twitch Sues Troll Streamers Over Violent Videos, Pornography

Likely some advertisers got his feefees hurt and pulled ads from twitch.

fucking kek

All anyone literally has to do is this and their entire operation is moot. They're only doing this in the hopes that they might manage to scare the shit out of potential trolls.

How can they subpoena your ISP in a civil lawsuit?

damage to reputation

With the shit they regularly host? What reputation?

How do MPAA/RIAA get your ISP to sue you?

>no source
One job

They don't host actual porn or gore, what are you saying?

Your honour, I have a statement from my client:

"seven hundred and seventy-seven nonillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven octillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven septillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven sextillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven quintillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven quadrillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven trillion, seven hundred and seventy-seven billion, seven hundred and seventy-seven million, seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand and seven hundred and seventy-seven"

Twitch itself probably doesn't actually care beyond saying they'll do it, to save face for advertisers who might be turned off by it happening. If they even actually do anything they will probably pursue minimum effort legal action against people who spammed shit nonstop

>“John and Jane Does 1-100”
Is that the sequel to Debbie Does Dallas?

Why are Twitch butthurt about porn anyway? Isn't it basically Chaturbate now anyway?

You can find the case files yourself, you lazy faggot. Just search for 3:19-cv-03418.

bloomberg
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>VPN companies fold to court orders every time.
Then what's the point of using them? Even if someone's not doing illegal shit, it defeats the purpose.

> potential trolls
are we the baddies?

>damages
they didnt cause any tangible damage to their platform. but Harvey Goldberg will probably argue some vague references to viewership and ad revenue that come from murky sources and win them a hefty sum

You clearly haven't been on Twitch within the past 6 years.

As long as you have money for it, lawsuits are expensive.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-15/twitch-sues-troll-streamers-over-violent-videos-pornography

They'd have to fuckin prove it.
The fact that I've yet to see a
>Advertisers pull out of Twitch following outrage from alt-right Trolls hijacking the platform
Article means it's probably not actually happened.

>Why are Twitch butthurt about porn anyway?
Ad money. Advertisers don't care about social ewhores, but literal camwhores and porn will send them running the fuck away. Newgrounds had to take hardcore porn ads for a while in the mid 2000s because of the sites NSFW sections-- nobody else would stick around.

I'm watching twitch right now, are you saying e girls streaming with cleavage is the same as hc porn?

was it over the artifact streamers?

Yeah, but since they are encouraging children to use their platform they have to be extremely cautious about anything that might come even remotely close to pornography being show to people under the age of 18.

I can assure you that if they could get away with kids fucking each other and playing vidya at the same time they totally would, but since it's against the law and they like having shareholders invest in their platform, they'll do everything they can to make sure nobody loses faith in them.

yes

Complaints are as follows
>federal trade mark infringement
>breach of contract
>trespass to chattels
>fraud
DO THEY HAVE A CASE?

>tfw i streamed the entirety of madoka magica
Am I fucked?

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No shit. Trolls are basically like mercenaries waging war on a city-state. The website is trying to create a deterrent to limit the number of ambushes they have to deal with to something more manageable.

Are there people who don't use Adblockers? What the fuck...

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This is fucking retarded. It's literally their platform to moderate.
Do your jobs your retarded lazy kikes.

I tripped on a rock outside, I don't know who put it there but they're getting sued

>it will ask the court to prohibit them from using the platform and order them to pay restitution and damages

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yes, because my ublock origin stops working and nothing else works

Get a VPN that doesn't log things
They can't demand the logs if they didn't exist in the first place

what's next, is the janny gonna sue me for shitposting?
This is nothing but a bluff aimed towards the edgy 14 year old zoomers who are probably the ones doing this.

to bypass shit like region locks and stuff, if you're doing something illegal and you think VPN is going to protect you then you're fucking retarded

the purpose is often to spoof nationality so you can use services that are region locked, not just to hide your cp

No problem, I'm a lawyer. Just cough up the cash for us to put together a case and we'll see what we can do.

Oh yeah, no refunds if you lose.

youtu.be/MeXQBHLIPcw

So you're saying they have a "reputation" of hosting cam whores to maintain?

There are people who literally disable their adblockers on their favorite streams to support streamers. Literally cucks.

I hope any streamerbros condom'd up first.

we will rise again
youtube.com/watch?v=4pAEINWFnXQ

they ban for nudity

topkek those are some mega lulz

Old anons would have been all about this especially Yea Forums in like 2009

>Now everybody pussies

Any anons that did that deserve rewards.

Criminal or civil doesn't matter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena
>"No uniform standard exists in the United States for determining the circumstances under which an anonymous online speaker may be unmasked."

If it was John sueing anonymous over an incident that happened on Twitch, then yes you can argue that a civil case might be not enough for Twitch to care to investigate logs, but this is Amazong sueing John Doe straight away.

>"Wasn't me"
>-"But this IP has been assigned by your ISP at the time of the incident and you have been unmasked as the owner..."
>"W-Wasn't me!"

Imagine this: Somebody was run over with your car and a camera recorded your license plate, but couldn't see the driver. You can say it wasn't you. You didn't report the vehicle stolen nor is there anyone else to blame. Same issue here. How do you lie and tell them that your network or computer was breached when Amazon wants to shit down your throat? You can claim that your wi-fi is unsecured, but that makes you accessory in computer crime from the get go, a potentially worse end.

ublock works if you use the right filters on twich. go to reddit if you want some more info.

Not always, for instance Alinity never got a ban for showing a picture of a dick from her discord

But are twitch thots still allowed?

>me
>during Artifact shit show
>manage to find comfy stream with 200-250 Viewers
>Plays Drive, Howls castle, Kiki delivery sevice
>Chat is nice
>Chat is comfy
>tfw watching 3 entire films with a bunch of randoms having a good time
I miss Artifact serction

VPN's are mainly used to bypass region locks or for public wifi so hackers can't get a hold of your actual IP when you log onto suspicious access points. What you're looking for is a no log VPN, where they don't keep records of which IP is being leased to which person so there's nothing to give the authorities.

There has been precedent in the US for IP adresses not being evidence enough to determine the identity of a person in the case of privacy.
zdnet.com/article/court-rules-internet-ip-addresses-are-not-people/

I really wish you guys wouldn't say fucking stupid shit like this as if it's some kind of profound moral hypocrisy.

A lady getting paid for showing her cleavage is not the same thing as her showing her tits or her getting fucked. E-thots are literally capitalizing on the desperation of miserable men and there is absolutely nothing illegal about that. If people didn't like them, then they wouldn't be fucking paying them. Get that through your thick, clueless skull.

No but theyre a corporate giant and have money to burn in their censorship crusade and that's what matters

Twitch themselves would have a hard time suing for trademark infringement, if twitch isn't the original holder of the trademark that was being streamed, especially because it wasn't being used for profit. They're probably just pursuing legal action against the actually illegal shit like the CP

Surprised they didn't go for the Nymn guy, streamer who started it. He pulled out as soon as something naughty was posted. A legit crayon eating Yea Forums tourist. Because of idiots like him we have influx of summer kids. Twitch should make an example out of him if they are going for anonymous "streamers".

You're right, the betas enabling them are to blame, especially when there are millions of free porn videos that exist

>breach of contract
Probably not. Twitch has its own legal contract which is only considered "active" if certain qualities are met, which were not met or agreed to by (presumably) all of the shitposting anons.
>trespass to chattels
Others have been penalized for this, but the requirements are not met in this case; all previous cases involved effectively inhibiting the system (e.g. mass spam to bring servers to a halt), whereas in this case it only inhibited people streaming Artifact, which is no one.
>fraud
I don't get how they plan on claiming this.
>federal trade mark infringement
This is the only serious claim, and every user is going to get raped by it. Enjoy federal prison for breaking copyright law.

Hiding youself from adbots, private corporations or private individuals.

Okay roastie. So you're admitting that they're basically softcore camwhoring on a site for streaming video games and thus tarnishing the reputation of the site as a whole, as "twitch-thot" is now common vernacular among the internet. But no, the twitch whores are doing nothing wrong and streaming movies to twitch is what's killing their reputation.

The article states they're going after people who posted normal porn and the Christchurch massacre video

>show cleavage
>not seeking attention
they might not know -what- they are doing, but they know what they're doing.

Your IP isn't proof it's you. You can deny everything, the only proof they need is you admitting it.

It wasn't him that started the streaming of shootings and entire fucking films, there was some /pol/acks intel streaming and some discord tranny streaming movies and streaming stupid shit on repeat, It just started of as a meme since Artifact was dead and donation baited to sometime check the section it was very occasional.

You need to read the case carefully. The reason why their identities were not revealed was because the company in question couldn't actually prove any unlawful activities. They just had a list of aggragated IP addresses that may or may not have been responsible for infringing copyright, since you could have been redirected to a website that automatically loaded a video with the infringing content. Also, it is a single case. Chances are someone is not getting the same judge.

>Imagine this
Imagine living in any place where you can personally be tied to an IP. In any decent country you can just claim that you weren't at home at that point, or that someone must have used your computer, or that you had your router unprotected, or you got hacked, etc. and there's literally nothing they can do to prove that it was you.

Amazon owned none of the trademarks though, they can't sue on behalf of someone else

>Christchurch massacre video
Thats not illegal to show though.

>what is the RIAA

They aren't suing for copyright
they are suing for breach of contract and reputational damage

I mean in civil court you just need to convince a jury that you probably did it and that's enough. no proof required

NordVPN legitimately cannot fold as they dont keep logs of anything as they're legally allowed to do being located in Panama or something.

>love somebody to the point that you're willing to spend several hours watching whatever they do
>disabling your adblocker for that person makes you a cuck

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Exactly.

These betas seek affirmation from a chick that they deem to be "better" than a literal camwhore. It's the same thing as chasing after a woman that you put on a pedestal. She's rich, she's popular, she's beautiful, and she plays vidya. These men want to believe they can win the girl's affection with their donations and this gives them the satisfaction they can't seem to get in real life.

Whether or not it can be equated to paying a camwhore isn't the fucking point. The point is that they provide a service that is in clearly in demand, no mater how pitiful it may seem to people who don't "get it" or who take for granted the fact that they get this type of satisfaction in their daily lives.

It's pathetic, but it's not unreasonable. Human beings have complex needs that the majority of us aren't even aware of.

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Remember: there are people in real life that pay for porn.

>called NordVPN
>located in Panama
nöice

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>They aren't suing for copyright
See They are suing for trademark infringement

Imagine the max exodus of the site if they try and sue someone that streamed Lords of the Lockerroom.

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I've had something similar happen when pirating movies and music. Got a letter saying to appear in court, went to court, told them I am not the sole user of the computer and that it is not password protected so they would have to prove it was me doing it. Case was dropped and it only took 2 hours out of my day. IPs don't mean shit.

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and they look like this

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*snap*

Not Private Internet Access. It's proven in court that they don't have any records that could help.

Remember when twitch used to ban non related video game content before the betas flooded the website.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Get over it you fucking moron.

>HE LACKS CRITICAL INFORMATION

>reputational damage
Which is a complete joke.
Lawfag here, theres a very good reason why cases like that don't ever work. You have to have complete irrefutable evidence that they lost a very specific amount of money which just isn't possible.
>user had a contract with FAGGOT
>NIGGER posts a video online saying user is falsely a pedophile and it must also be believable that user could be a pedo
>FAGGOT has to in writing at the time state they are withdrawing the contract purely because of NIGGERs video and there can be zero other mitigating circumstances.

Its one of the most common bullshit sue threats around but honestly just gets dismissed or dropped instantly due to how narrow the circumstances must be for it to actually go forward. Its even harder for corporations.

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Back then they had a seperate site (justin.tv I believe?) dedicated for that stuff. Now I believe it's all merged into Twitch

>tfw my cousin lets me use his PIA account

He's too good to me

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PIA is pretty good. have used it for darkweb purchases.

some countires have public IPs
had multiple bans for other boards here and never went there because i only use Yea Forums and Yea Forums
had problems joining games and hosting parties in coop because my IP was a shared one
also its on the coastline while im not even close to the coast

i had to tell my ISP to disable CGN without trying to make me buy a static ip

>people who pay for porn are ugly, sleazy, and sketchy

Holy shit, are you like a genius mathematician or something?

>Work at harbour
>Ships named like: Vikang, Northman, Finnboi, etc
>All registered at tax heavens and south america
Ajajajaj sopa de macao uma delicia

by finding out who they are...?

Does not work that way.

Twitch has a history of sucessfull suing:
youtube.com/watch?v=7_OfnVrslv8&feature=youtu.be

>Imagine living in any place where you can personally be tied to an IP.
You bought your connection from your ISP. They can see which IP was assigned to the cable going into your home. Someone is paying your bills, yes?

>In any decent country you can just claim that you weren't at home at that point, or that someone must have used your computer, or that you had your router unprotected, or you got hacked, etc.
In the EU and Canada you are actually held responsible for this until you can prove a break-in. Analogy: If someone broke into your house and you had a booby trap, you would actually go to prison.
I mean, have you been living under a rock? Youtube & co are held responsible for their users content and in the same vein this works for the owner of an internet connection. Knowingly or unknowingly.

For example: gizmodo.com/germans-to-get-fined-for-not-securing-wi-fi-networks-5537749

Good luck proving that someone broke into your router.

Go away, Twitch jannie. Don't make me start spamming porn on your precious website.

They have before.
NordVPN datamines the shit out you in order to sell the data later, that its why its advertised everywhere.

yes
you are john/jane doe #69

Really?
There are companies that sit on torrent trackers and record every IP that connects to them then they sell the info to the people who sue you.
It's all bullshit and there is nothing that can happen to you (yet), at least in the US.
But that is what they do.
That's why a lot of people use priveate trackers but those could get infiltrated if they aren't already.

Country?

3 day band for repeated (intentionally) offenders with moderate viewership aka horseshit

no it doesn't

No you're fine, I believe that if you weren't banned it's because the owner of the show didn't demand to put you down,

>twitch gets absolutely assblasted over Artifact section
l fucking mao

they made the two people that unironically streamed Artifact lose hundreds of dollars.

We can still say that taking advantage of people's weaknesses is immoral. Even if these people are receiving what they think they want.

shitpost on Yea Forums about niggers or the president, get sent to the gulag. I can't wait to be in the year 2040

he made it popular.

Nymn did this. If some anonymous streamers are to take responsibility so should he. Stop big streamer/partner privilege!

Your example is about Germany. The literal dumbest country in all of EU, that constantly tries to fuck themselves, their own people and every other country too in every process they can.

Remember that whole Article 13 thing a little while ago? Germany was responsible for launching that and constantly pushing/backing it into existence. If you ever hear anything from either Germany or UK, just know that they are not like the rest of EU.

>Nymn
>streamer who started Artifact meme
>no repercussion because pulled out after baiting people
>big partnered streamer privilege

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fuck i watched the ratatouille stream. am i fucked bros?

Good, fuck streamers.

That said, torrent harassment does not exist in the UK. At least that was the case a few years back. They have TV loicense harassment though.

>a car that can be used by one person at a time is the same as an IP that can be used by hundreds at a time or used without your knowledge.

he cute

>Somebody was run over with your car and a camera recorded your license plate, but couldn't see the driver. You can say it wasn't you.
I would say that, yeah.
> How do you lie and tell them that your network or computer was breached when Amazon wants to shit down your throat?
I say it wasn't me and tell them to prove it.

Nymn is hot as fuck. I wish he'd notice me so we could meet up and he would eat my ass

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>IPs don't mean shit
lets see how that hold ups when it's something actually illegal

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>Sweden
>looks like muslim
ok

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Nah
I watched a Backstroke of the West, Shrek and Shrek 2 marathon. Then it got banned in the middle of Madagascar. p comfy

this makes me want to get behind 7 proxies and fuck with them even more

I don't disagree with this, but this is unfortunately an issue that is entirely a personal matter. The world is full of things that takes advantage of a person's weaknesses. If the person doesn't want to take the extremely difficult route of learning how to accept, cope with, and manage their weakness, then I say let them indulge until it destroys them.

We can't pull things from the market simply because a minority of individuals are ruining their lives over it. It's only if it starts to have an effect on the population at large that it needs to be removed and policed.

you need a phone attached to your account to stream now

>claimed that post was a joke

You can even automate it to some extent with shit like Restream.io

>feds came to my house and ransacked it for CP
>better taunt em with things they might have missed.

Autism

You didn't even need to verify your email before streaming a few weeks ago during the height of the offtopic artifact stream meme. You could not only use disposable emails, you could use random ass other peoples' and spam emails without even needing to verify it. Honestly I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner because it was laughably abusable

He should've just encrypted his files, Americans are lucky because they have the 5th Amendment meaning they can't force you to decrypt your files, while in my country(Australia) it's a long prison sentence if they tell you to decrypt your files and you don't

>women stream themselves with the tits nearly hanging out
>even saw a body paint stream once on there
>someone posts porn
OH
MY
GOD
MY
REPUTATION

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clips.twitch.tv/ExpensivePolitePepperOSsloth

Twitch clip of a body paint stream where milk comes out of her breast while painting them

We (in a sense, me or you or other anons; individual people) cannot pull things from the market, but what I'm saying we can still declare something immoral. For example I think that being a e-thot is immoral, because this includes tricking people into believing that they are significant to you, while you're only interested in money.

They've cracked down on that shit a while ago. If you still see somebody doing it, report them and they'll definitely get banned.
People aren't even allowed to show male nipples or any cleavage now.

my benis

I hate that women can get away with shit like this when I have seen cool bros banned for not wearing a shirt.

>banned for forgetting to swap category when I swapped game
>partnered streamers constantly stream in the wrong category
>never banned
hmmmm

being meguca is suffering

No, you are wrong.
witch does not sue you under DMCA, read the documents. It dues you for violation of ToS and multiple other agreements.

So yes, if he is USA-located - he is fucked.

Imagine bodypainting over your penis, and suddenly you bust a nut on the camera. Would you get banned?

>banned and warned for streaming a man screaming
>twitch staff literally watch a guy streaming game of thrones
I wouldn't mind if they were at least consistent with their moderation

You are not allowed to bodypaint if you are a man

do you report them? because the problem is if they are big streamers everyone sucks their dicks instead of reporting them and stressing out big streamers privilege

I've reported them 4 times as I'm sick of checking out that game category thinking theres people actually streaming it and they are playing CS:GO or some shit

here is how you fix that.
stop being a vidya cuck. you are watching people play video games instead of playing them your self. you are a cuckold

Monopoly

It's a fighting game you faggot, I want to watch it from time to time to see if I learn anything that can help me improve. I'm not going on twitch so i can give my artificial friend my paycheck

>watch a woman stream once
>men are constantly praising her
>mods are constantly competing for her attention
>an admin joins in the competition
>someone donates 700 hundred dollars
>she says thank you as a cute animation plays on screen

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>clips.twitch.tv/ExpensivePolitePepperOSsloth
muh

benis aren't even remotely the same value as boobs. Western culture for some reason thinks it is. You show benis they show bagina. Tits for tits. Remember this. NEVER DEVALUE YOUR DICK

Is it just me or does this sound a little familiar?

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>700 hundred dollars

>i like watching Tyrone fuck my girl so i can learn from him!
you are a vidya cuck. You would rather watch someone else churn that butter and mash those DPs than play it your self. many such cases, SAD.

LMAO THIS IS REAL
and yes it is the same thing, and just as bad

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Criminally underrated

Unfortunately, your opinion on this matter is worth practically nothing. I think being stupid and incompetent is immoral and that smarter, more capable people have the right to take advantage of them. It would seem that the free market shares the same opinion as me as we can observe with the financial success of Twitch-thots.

I don't watch Twitch at all because I think the entire thing is a waste of time and that the people who watch anyone on Twitch are stupid, thus making them immoral. I have no sympathy for people who indulge in things that make them immoral. They are no longer innocent and deserve their misery.

>A lady getting paid for showing her cleavage is not the same thing as her showing her tits or her getting fucked

The latter is far more legitimate and respectable. Actual camwhores are more honest than twitch thots.

>I think being stupid and incompetent is immoral

This is akin to saying being born ugly is immoral. You're not making any sense.

Sick trump reference bro

>far more legitimate and respectable

Lol by what standard? They are both taking advantage of lonely men, but in slightly different ways. Neither of them is any more legitimate than the fact that you think so is pretty bizarre.

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>2019
>corporations suing users for bad behavior
Some real dystopian shit here.

*than the other, and the fact that

Being stupid, more often than not, is a choice, user. Not really sure how else to explain this.

just use paid vpn. not hard.

NordNet ceo is litterly jewish though

IT'S NOT FAIR

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>make it harder to track you by giving the VPN your credit card info
good idea

kek

Reminder males can make a shit ton of money from camming. as long as you appeal to faggots they will throw money at you. I had a female friend that is a camwhore. she made 5K a month a male cam model she met at a con was making 13K a month.

lol vpns this isnt 2005

vpn happily will sell all you data once court order arrives
or they go out of иusiness

>A lady getting paid for showing her cleavage is not the same thing as her showing her tits
Whoa...so this...is the power of...female intellectualism.

I knew it was bad, but damn she can almost get that house

I get off to the fact that I'm basically financially incentivizing some kike to completely destroy some woman by turning her into nothing more then a sex object.

What about people who just watched and participated in discord?

I got a cease and desist from cogeco for some movie torrented off frostwire ten or so years ago. Weird thing is I didn’t torrent shit but it sure scared my mom.

Look up the artifact category debacle from a little while ago and do some research before you make yourself look like a retard