Auto-hosting was disabled on my channel as of yesterday,
this means channels will only be manually hosted to avoid the technical issues
I've been having for the past month (roughly).
Additionally, I've run into another issue while streaming Fortnite,
this has to do with the new song that is forced since the start of the Fall
2019 event that added music (as well as emotes & now pickaxes) from Battle
Royal, which ends up being the Sparkles music if you haven't purchased
anything else to replace it (where anything else played would probably get
flagged anyways). At this point, Twitch
is audio vandalizing my streams as a result of this music & I don't
currently have the option to disable it (outside of disabling music entirely,
however I lose my edge of knowing mist monsters are in the vicinity if I do).
In any case, the audio vandalism is going to result in some
changes that viewers may not be happy with, as well as I know Twitch won't be
happy with (this has been clear since the removal of custom tags, which is
expected to have happened as I was using a tag called audio vandalism)
whenever audio was muted due to the game's soundtrack). I've come to know what games are going to
have mutes in them based on the soundtrack of the game, it appears that Fortnite
is now being added to that list. Games
where I knew there was going to be mutes, I would only respond to viewers over
text in chat (rather than voice), however these videos are used in violation
reports to Epic Games, so I'll either need to consider going with disabling
music entirely or linking the YouTube versions of those videos in the
descriptions of the highlights on Twitch (hopefully they won't get muted on
YouTube as well, otherwise I'll have to re-consider using another host to host
those videos, possibly even going as far as hosting them on my personal site
instead of using a standard video sharing site), as I already know that appeals
on Twitch do no good (they never have in the past).
Additionally, I'm going to start pointing out how often a
video gets audio vandalized (via the description & titles of past
broadcasts) by taking note of how many times the video gets flagged for
whatever music (not only in Fortnite, but also other games where this
has been an issue). Aside from
descriptions & titles on Twitch, there's also a review I started years ago
on my personal site titled Copyright Confusion (this review in particular is the expected reason why Twitch keeps lowering the value of gained revenue on paid subscriptions towards my channel on Twitch, which is why subscribers only get what is calculated as revenue based on Twitch's calculations at this point, but they do gain a viewing multiplier on points), which details that the rights to use music should be transferred
by the games that are using them when being streamed, however despite being a
part of the game's soundtrack, sites like Twitch & YouTube obviously don't
feel this is accurate & as a result, you see penalizations being put in
place like mutes on Twitch & account strikes (video deletions, mutes,
region restrictions or forced monetization by the owner) on YouTube (which is
why I might re-open my DailyMotion account & see if I have any better luck
over there).
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