Twitch has been receiving criticisms from just about every corner of the internet. Sound effects were not mentioned, and streamers can hardly be blamed for expecting something as innocuous as wind blowing to fly well below the legal radar. Earlier this week, Twitch outlined its plan to better handle these DMCA issues, and it encouraged players to mute all in-game music. Ordinary, every day sounds that no one would think twice about. Players have had issues playing clock chimes, bird and insect noises, police sirens, and even wind. Streamers have taken to Twitter to announce that in the latest outrage of this DMCA nonsense, streams are getting muted and flagged for minor in-game sound effects.
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Streamers don't know who's flagging the violations, what content was flagged for which reason, and how to go about making that content compliant to prevent further issues. Worse, Twitch's communication skills about the issue have been frankly atrocious. Even partnered streamers have been banned over DMCA violations, sometimes with little to no warning. No one is safe from Twitch's purging efforts. Content has been banned and deleted en masse, with no hope of restitution for the content creators who've lost their footage. Streamers big and small have had their content flagged for the most minor of violations, even if the streams are years old. The ongoing "DMCA Bloodbath" that's been rocking the streaming platform has claimed a lot of victims so far. Multiple Twitch streamers are reporting receiving DMCA flags for minor in-game sound effects.