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Twitch knows exactly what they're doing. They're forcing streamers to assume the responsibility & cost for storing & serving video archives. Twitch's costs go
by biglyburrito 2y ago
Twitch knows exactly what they're doing. They're forcing streamers to assume the responsibility & cost for storing & serving video archives. Twitch's costs go down, which means their profit goes up, which makes their execs & shareholders happier. They're unlikely to lose much business, & if they do lose business it will be dwarfed by the cost savings & increased profits.
A lot of archived streamer footage will disappear; most archived footage that is preserved will likely uploaded to streamers' YouTube channel(s).
- snvzz 2y agoYes, they know what they're doing re: moving the responsibility of storing/serving video archives to the streamer. No, they don't know what they're doing re: doing this on such short notice. Few streamers have the time, network bandwidth and local storage to salvage the data in such short notice. As a result, many a streamer is working without sleep moving data to save it from certain doom.