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Twitch censors live Metallica concert with dorkiest music imaginable

80 points by Borlands 6y ago

antihero 6y ago
Oh man, this is glorious. The obscenely rich fuckwits that led the charge against Napster getting censored by the effects of their own actions.
- RedComet 6y ago
  Obscenely poor compared to the ones doing the censoring, however (Twitch aka Amazon).
  - mamon 6y ago
    Combined net worth of Metallica members is almost $1B (, so it's basically "billionaires at war" case. No reason to root for them as underdogs.
    - RedComet 6y ago
      Yikes, Bezos alone completely dwarfs that number. Not to mention the actual power Amazon has that they don't.
      - cheez0r 6y ago
        Right... so the reality is, they probably feel like the myriad Napster users they sued, a little guy getting trod on by the big gorilla in the room... which is delicious in its irony.
- Bakary 6y ago
  I mean... they will probably care for about five minutes then head back to their no doubt richly textured, varied, and stimulating lives. Not the most satisfying gotcha situation
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  They’re crying all the way to the bank.
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shaicoleman 6y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204691
wedn3sday 6y ago
I watched this live on twitch, and didn't have any disruption to the audio stream.
- scrollaway 6y ago
  My understanding is it happened only to twitch's own restream, which was on the twitch homepage.
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    The article notes > (You can see it for yourself on Twitch’s broadcast of the event; the Metallica stuff starts at roughly the 1:10:00 mark.) But sadly, you can't.
dijit 6y ago
I'm sure Metallica doesn't really care, but it's ironic given that a large part of the mess we're in today (with the large platforms fearing copyrighted works showing up for 1/10th of a second) stems directly from Metallica. I did however see a video by Tom Scott recently about how the copyright system is broken; and it's not the platforms fault. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

80 points by Borlands 6y ago

Oh man, this is glorious. The obscenely rich fuckwits that led the charge against Napster getting censored by the effects of their own actions.

RedComet 6y ago
Obscenely poor compared to the ones doing the censoring, however (Twitch aka Amazon).
- mamon 6y ago
  Combined net worth of Metallica members is almost $1B (, so it's basically "billionaires at war" case. No reason to root for them as underdogs.
  - RedComet 6y ago
    Yikes, Bezos alone completely dwarfs that number. Not to mention the actual power Amazon has that they don't.
    - cheez0r 6y ago
      Right... so the reality is, they probably feel like the myriad Napster users they sued, a little guy getting trod on by the big gorilla in the room... which is delicious in its irony.
Bakary 6y ago
I mean... they will probably care for about five minutes then head back to their no doubt richly textured, varied, and stimulating lives. Not the most satisfying gotcha situation
tinus_hn 6y ago
They’re crying all the way to the bank.

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shaicoleman 6y ago

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204691

wedn3sday 6y ago

I watched this live on twitch, and didn't have any disruption to the audio stream.

scrollaway 6y ago
My understanding is it happened only to twitch's own restream, which was on the twitch homepage.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  The article notes > (You can see it for yourself on Twitch’s broadcast of the event; the Metallica stuff starts at roughly the 1:10:00 mark.) But sadly, you can't.

dijit 6y ago

I'm sure Metallica doesn't really care, but it's ironic given that a large part of the mess we're in today (with the large platforms fearing copyrighted works showing up for 1/10th of a second) stems directly from Metallica. I did however see a video by Tom Scott recently about how the copyright system is broken; and it's not the platforms fault. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU