Twitter suspended xQc from using his account, despite the fact that the video he posted that received a DMCA claim was his.
The social media platform Twitter decided to suspend the popular Twitch streamer and former pro esports star xQc from his account, after one of his videos from his own stream won a DMCA strike.
DMCA takedown notices have been a major issue on Twitch and Twitter for the past two months, as well as on social media in general. It basically refers to removals for copyright infringement, which means that any streamer who may be playing copyrighted music in the background may be at risk of having your video removed. Twitch was one of the main sites where creators were most affected, exactly for that reason. In fact, xQc received this strike a few days ago, but now Twitter itself has banned it from your account.
After some time, xQc he managed to log in again and explain what happened and said that an automated system had suspended his clip, which was only ten seconds long and was already a year old, created from one of his own streams. However, it is a little strange that something has to file the complaint. It wouldn’t have been xQc itself because he made the video and didn’t think there was a problem with it, considering he was a year old, but it had to be someone he recognized as a DMCA attack. Whatever the answer, xQc didn’t put any insights into it, taking the time to talk to Twitter and publicize the company’s system, saving sarcastically “Well that“and thinking that your next offense could lead you to end up in prison.
What xQc is referring to is a streaming crime bill that was recently passed a few weeks ago to be added to Covid’s help package. What the bill does is that it focuses mainly on pirated streaming services that exist only for commercial purposes, targeting services that strive to transmit unlicensed content. So, for cases like this, the bill would not necessarily put xQc in a world of trouble for a mistake in the past, not like when it was suspended from Twitch by a stream attacking Autumn staff. It is still something to worry about because there was no direct distinction in the account before someone had to clarify it.
Even so, it seems that the streamer is back on Twitter, despite previous problems. He is not alone in his frustrations with the DMCA’s claims, as there have been some protests in the past to contain the crashes that have occurred, although that was only on Twitch. However, if the DMCA strikes continue on Twitter, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if the protests also reached the popular social media platform.
Source: Twitter
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