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DMCA is the copyright law in question.
by devwastaken 6y ago
DMCA is the copyright law in question.
- dragonwriter 6y agoNo, DMCA weakens the incentive for Twitch to implement a policy like this compared to copyright law outside of the DMCA. With the DMCA, serial offenders are just a bureaucratic headache as Twitch has to deal with takedowns. Without the DMCA, Twitch would be potentially liable for copyright infringement at the first offense by a streamer, and facing much greater risk of large damages for contributory infringement for continuing to fail to prevent repeat violations by known serial offenders. The copyright law motivating the ban policy is the basic exclusive rights of copyright, not the DMCA.