Rumor: YouTube buying Twitch for 1 Billion

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Rumor: YouTube buying Twitch for 1 Billion
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/youtub ... 0-6419720/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

Please don't let this be true! Twitch is doing fine right now, i don't want Youtube/Google fucking it up!
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But that's how the bubble works! :lol:
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Yeah I mentioned this in another thread.

RIP Twitch. Incoming video takedowns and linking to your Google+ account, because that's our favorite right...
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Xeogred wrote:Yeah I mentioned this in another thread.

RIP Twitch. Incoming video takedowns and linking to your Google+ account, because that's our favorite right...
Well Goggle is getting rid of G+ so you don't have to worry about that. But Youtube's Bullshit copyright system and how Youtube has gotten worse over the years doesn't instill much confidence.
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Aramonde wrote:Well Goggle is getting rid of G+ so you don't have to worry about that.
Source?

The thing that worries me the most about this is Content ID. The system is fickle at best, usually targeting cut scenes and in-game music. Personally, it flagged a video of mine because it had the Konami logo in it :roll:
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Well shit :P.
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I don't really think anyone would need to worry about a ContentID system if everything is being streamed live. I doubt the algorithm itself is real-time, let alone additional overhead.
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BRIK wrote:
Aramonde wrote:Well Goggle is getting rid of G+ so you don't have to worry about that.
Source?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/ ... resources/
Cronozilla wrote:I don't really think anyone would need to worry about a ContentID system if everything is being streamed live. I doubt the algorithm itself is real-time, let alone additional overhead.
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Twitch is the only alternative to Youtube gaming has, I would rather not have them buy it.
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General_Norris wrote:Twitch is the only alternative to Youtube gaming has, I would rather not have them buy it.
Ustream?

I guess we might be saying goodbye to "Twitch Plays pokemon" ha ha
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