NEWS
2021/02/22
Over the weekend, Metallica’s performance became a huge talking point at the annual BlizzCon after their audio was replaced by some generic, copyright-free 8‑bit music. Only seconds into For Whom The Bell Tolls, the metallers were silenced by Twitch on the front page of the live streaming platform’s Gaming section, seemingly due to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) situation that has been affecting Twitch and its content creators in recent times (since May 2020, hundreds of streamers have been getting takedown notices for using copyrighted material in their videos). Read this: Metallica vs. Napster: The lawsuit that redefined how we listen to music Of course, the band’s actual virtual performance wasn’t affected – only the audio for viewers on Twitch – so you...
