Twitter suspended xQc from using his account, despite the fact that the video he posted receiving a DMCA claim was his own.
The social media platform Twitter took it upon himself to suspend popular Twitch streamer and former professional esports star xQc from his account after one of his videos got a DMCA strike from his own stream.
The DMCA removal notices have been a major issue on Twitch and Twitter over the past few months, as well as social media in general. It basically refers to removals of copyright infringement, which means that any streamer playing copyrighted music in the background runs the risk of deleting their video. Twitch was for this reason one of the most important sites where creators were hit the most. xQc actually received this strike a few days ago, but now Twitter itself has banned it from its account.
After a while, xQc was able to log in again and give an account of what happened, and said that an automated system took his clip, one that was only ten seconds long and was already a year old, from one of his own streams suspended. However, it is a bit strange that something had to file the complaint though. It would not have been xQc himself, because he is the one who made the video and did not think there was a problem with it, since it was a year old, but it had to be someone who did it as a DMCA strike recognized. Whatever the answer, xQc had no insight into it, and took the time to talk to Twitter and call out the company’s system, sarcastically mocking “Well done“and thinks that his next offense might get him in jail.
What xQc is referring to was a bill on currents that was recently passed a few weeks ago to contribute to the Covid aid package. What the bill does is that it mainly focuses on pirate streaming services that exist exclusively for commercial purposes, and are aimed at services that go to great lengths to stream unlicensed content. In such cases, the xQc bill would not necessarily end up in a world of trouble for a mistake in the past, unlike when he was expelled from Twitch for sniping power. Val guys. This is still something to worry about because there was no direct distinction in the bill before anyone had to explain it.
Nevertheless, it seems that the streamer is now back on Twitter, despite the problems before. He is not alone in his frustrations over the DMCA claims, as there have been some protests in the past to counter the removals that have happened, even though it was only on Twitch. However, if the DMCA strikes continue on Twitter, it will not be a surprise if the protests also get on the popular social media platform.
Source: Twitter
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