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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by everdrive »

bluecatswim wrote: post #152
meheleventyone wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that the basis of the economy with the increasing wealth gap and so on? It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie.

>It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie. I feel like it's substantially different, you are paying Disney the money to watch the movie, you don't really care about the actors or other people who worked on it. On the other hand, twitch users pay for the sake of paying money, it's closer to something like strip clubs.

>you don't really care about the actors or other people who worked on it.

Plenty of people do, of course. Celebrity worship is quite common.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by a_f »

aosaigh wrote: post #47

How many other sites of this size have had breaches of this magnitude (financial, source code, database etc.)? This seems enormous.

The EA one comes to mind, which was recent. They had access to the source of a number of games, including unreleased ones as well as the Frostbite engine if I recall correctly. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57431987

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by lights0123 »

thinkingemote wrote: post #157

From another site a user commented that it might have proprietary modifications to ffmpeg which is LGPL/GPL (I think?). Would a leak be considered to be distribution, could others legally take these modifications and merge them into the upstream project? I imagine other free software might have modifications too.

No. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#StolenCopy

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by corobo »

jeremyjh wrote: post #172
vsareto wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just spend 2 minutes and change your password instead of spending 2 minutes thinking about whether you should.

Then you would not be solving the problem because you need to change everywhere else you used that same password.

If that is the problem you have a different problem. Don't reuse passwords.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #112
eurasiantiger wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

B..b..but that’s… that’s piracy!

Or just watch it on television. (You can even tape it when it's on television… sshhhhhhh.)

Are you using VHS for said taping? I suddenly wonder if this is one of those anachronistic phrases, or if people no longer use it and you're revealing your age.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by boringg »

lemoncookiechip wrote: post #31

Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

Am I the only one a bit disappointed by the gross earnings for the top 5 earners given how much the media has ben hyping the money made by e-gamers. For some reason I would have thought they would make more money over 2 years. Top earner was grossing $ 9.6M ($4.8M/yr), 10th was $2.9M($1.4M/yr), at 81 you drop below $1M (500k/yr) on twitch pre-tax revenue. After 81 you drop below the %1M over two years threshold.

Actually the more I think about it - that does seem like a lot if you add in their other rev from youtube channels and other compensation. I understand why all the pro players started working on their twitch stream content more than winning competitions. More stable business and viewer base.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by corobo »

1121redblackgo wrote: post #188
fexelein wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not?

It's illegally obtained information, sensitive information, about thousands of individuals and their personal businesses. I don't think its appropriate, and I would hate to be on that list right now.

Isn't this the exact argument search engines have been fighting for years in relation to piracy? The data hasn't been provided, a link to the data has been provided

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by boringg »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #129
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #31

Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

In the vernacular, I ain't clickin that shit

You aren't clicking a pastebin CSV file?

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

swarnie wrote: post #78
meheleventyone wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that the basis of the economy with the increasing wealth gap and so on? It's not really materially different to paying Disney millionaires to go watch the latest Marvel movie.

Maybe if viewed in a cynical way yes. At least when i donate to blue origin i get something tangible delivered to my door. Where is the value exchange in being one of 10k people building a faux-relationship with a hot tub streamer?

I think the word you are looking for is entertainment. You may not appreciate the value of said entertainment, but then I don't really see a merit of donkey shows, Kanye or just about any other entertainment figure. That is the value.

And by its very nature, it is ephemeral.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by polote »

dannyw wrote: post #34
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #31

Link to the leak: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/83691438 Top 10k Streamers by Revenue: https://pastebin.com/LjmaPNam Contains the following data points: 'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross', 'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross', 'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross', 'bb_rev_gross' (TTS donations, 3rd party revenue like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazo…

The leak contains much more than this FYI, there's a hundred gigabytes of code and resources from dozens of repositories. Looks like someone dumped everything on their github enterprise. I wonder if this'll lead to software engineers in big companies having more restricted access to code?

> I wonder if this'll lead to software engineers in big companies having more restricted access to code?

I don't think that Twitch has closed source code because they want to keep code private. It's probably more a matter of don't want to show commit message in case there are some bad words inside it. And don't want to show the world in case their source code look bad.

Twitch without its code source can't work yeah, but imagine if all the commits of Twitch were public I doubt it would change anything for them.

That would be nice if their was a mental change about source code and that it is fine to show it even if it looks shit.

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