"A great, well-known example of this policy in action is YouTube's three-strike policy. "Otherwise, a service provider would just re-upload content repeatedly and defeat the purpose of the DMCA. "Under the DMCA, service providers must have a repeat infringer policy in place to track and remove those who repeatedly upload infringing content," says Noah Downs, a lawyer specialising in intellectual property and copyright law. "Twitch can't afford to be lenient here, because they risk losing their safe harbor protections under the DMCA" Noah Downs In addition to scaring Twitch streamers, these mass strikes are proof that content creators are always at the mercy of platform holders. There are many streamers on Twitch that have spent years building their channels, slowly amassing thousands of VODs, clips and followers as they turn their hobbies into a full-time profession. Streamers initially feared that if they accidentally missed old videos containing copyrighted music and failed to remove them, their channels would face severe consequences - accounts that receive three copyright strikes are terminated by Twitch, although it is possible for users to dispute these with a counterclaim. Popular streamers can easily amass thousands of clips, and at the time of the strikes there was no way to mass delete clips - Twitch later implemented this feature in response to criticism. As many of the videos and clips affected by the strikes were years old, Twitch streamers were worried they'd have to spend hours manually searching through all of their old VODs and clips to check for copyrighted music. To say the experience has been stressful for content creators would be an understatement. While this isn't the first time that takedowns have been issued against Twitch, the strikes in June drew significant attention as they included copyrighted audio from video clips - highlights reels of a stream that are usually captured by other users and weren't previously scanned for copyrighted music. Since 2014, Twitch has been working in partnership with Audible Magic to scan Twitch VODs - archives of previous Twitch streams - in 30-minute blocks, muting any sections that contain copyrighted music. When Twitch was hit with mass strikes over copyrighted music in June, it sent content creators into a panic storm.
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