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""The company said that if it learns the identities of the anonymous streamers who have abused its terms of service -- named in the lawsuit as “John and Jane Do
by arkitaip 7y ago
""The company said that if it learns the identities of the anonymous streamers who have abused its terms of service -- named in the lawsuit as “John and Jane Does 1-100” -- it will ask the court to prohibit them from using the platform and order them to pay restitution and damages.""
Restitution and damages for what?
- olliej 7y agoif nothing else: legal fees. If a streamer violates the ToS, and hides their identity then serving them a restraining order can cost quite a lot. I’m sure there are other things - eg punitive damages exist for the purpose of ensuring that the cost of violation is more than just the direct harn
- eridius 7y agoAlso the videos were presumably damaging to the Twitch brand for anyone who saw them, which translates into lost revenue for Twitch.
- olliej 7y agoI just figured that that was a pointless argument (people on HN seem to dismiss the concept of brand image and how that might have value), but you are of course correct - legal costs however are very directly enumerable
- Causality1 7y agoI don't recall Twitch suing any of the legion of titty streamers for damaging their brand, despite those reputational damages being far in excess of the ones caused by trolls. Though of course this whole suing thing is mostly just grandstanding to try and keep trolls off their platform because they lack the technical means to do it the right way.