Popular Streamer xQc Banned From Twitter After Using A Clip From His Own Stream

The social media platform Twitter has taken it upon itself to suspend the popular Twitch streamer and former professional esports star xQc from his account after one of his videos from his own stream gained a DMCA strike.

The DMCA takedown notices have been a huge issue on Twitch and Twitter for the last couple of months, as well as social media in general. It basically refers to copyright infringement takedowns, which means that any streamer that might be playing copyrighted music in the background might be at risk of having their video removed. Twitch was one of the main websites where creators were hit the most, due to that very reason. xQc actually received this strike a couple of days ago, but now Twitter itself has banned him from his account.

After some time, xQc was able to log back in and give an explanation as to what happened and said that an automated system had suspended his clip, one that was only ten seconds long and was already a year old, created from one of his own streams. It is a bit peculiar though that something had to file the complaint, however. It wouldn’t have been xQc himself because he is the one who made the video and didn’t think that there was an issue with it, considering it was a year old, but it had to be someone who recognized it as a DMCA strike. Whatever the answer may be, xQc didn’t place insight on that, taking the time to speak to Twitter and call out the company’s system, saving sarcastically “Well thaught out” and thinking that his next infringement might see him end up in jail.

What xQc is referring to was a felony streaming bill that was recently passed a couple of weeks ago to add to the Covid relief package. What the bill does is that it mainly focuses on pirate streaming services that exist solely for commercial purposes, targeting services that go out of their way to stream unlicensed content. So for instances like this, the bill wouldn’t necessarily land xQc in a world of trouble for a mistake in the past, not like when he was suspended from Twitch from stream sniping in Fall Guys. It’s still something to be concerned about because there wasn’t a direct distinction in the bill before someone had to clarify it.

Even so, it seems the streamer is back on Twitter now despite the issues before. He isn’t alone in his frustrations with the DMCA claims, as there have been some protests in the past to counter the takedowns that have happened, although that was only on Twitch. However, if the DMCA strikes continue onto Twitter it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if the protests came to the popular social media platform as well.

Source: Twitter

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