Yesterday, Blizzard launched a collection of classic games from the studio. But the studio also gave a warning to anyone who wants to broadcast one of the games, Rock n ‘roll Racing on Twitch: Turn off the music. All of it.
Announced and released yesterday, a Blizzard Arcade Collection contains three classic games: The Lost Vikings, Rock n ‘Roll Racing, and Blackthorne. If you plan to broadcast this collection, be careful when playing Rock n ‘Roll Racing as the music contained in this arcade racing game is not released for streaming. As detected by PCGamesN, this PSA came via a tweet from Adam Fletcher, community development leader at Blizzard. “If you choose to broadcast, do so with the music turned off,” warned Fletcher.
The new version of the game included in the Blizzard Arcade Collection contains not only the midi classic rock covers found in the original release, but also recently added full versions of those same songs. This is a nice bonus, but it also means that this game contains a lot of licensed songs that can earn you a DMCA notice on Twitch.
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However, it’s not just the new full versions of the songs that you need to avoid while on Twitch. Fletcher also added that, for now, the covers of old school midi tracks can also get you into trouble. Considering one of the best parts of Rock n ‘Roll Racing is the soundtrack of classic rock, this is not a great solution.
In November, with little warning, Twitch started cleaning up clips and streams from the site that contained any licensed music or sound effects. The situation has not improved much since then.
In fact, during BlizzCon’s opening ceremony last night, a prerecorded Metallica’s performance had its music removed and replaced by generic audio by Twitch. This is a good system that we have. Everything is working perfectly …
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