Justin Kan is now going to be pretty rich. Good for him. Congrats!
YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
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Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#22If confirmed, this would definitely be a smart decision. Twitch will be extremely important in ecosystem development as e-sports break in the mainstream worldwide. Lots of engaged eyeballs. Google near monopoly on online video market bugs me though, community at large would benefit from multiple players and more competition.
One will argue that 'e-sports' already peaked in 2002.
Sure, but that may have been just a local peak. "e-sports 2.0" will hit really big, at the scale of social networks. We just need a killer game for the post-pc era.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#23This is disappointing. YouTube's 'community' is extremely toxic, I can imagine if Twitch is rolled into it, it'll die a long, slow death.
Twitch community is also pretty toxic.
Most of the time the biggest streamers put their chats in sub mode (paying supporters) to avoid it.
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#24Semi-related question... Do you know who came up with an idea of allowing companies to own other companies (and when)?
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#25It's worth noting that Twitch partially became popular because it wasn't YouTube , and gamers could stream without content restrictions (e.g. copyright and region) Miraculously, this could end up making YouTube comments even worse .
Are you suggesting that thus far that Twitch somehow was exempt from copyright claims?!
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#26Compared to recent other aquisitions, 1 billion somehow seems like a bargain. Twitch has clear potential to play an important role in the future in TV and entertainment. Compare that to i.e. Snapchat...
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#27You now need a Google+ account to spam Kappa
And in before every popular channel gets shut down for copyright infringement...
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#28Compared to recent other aquisitions, 1 billion somehow seems like a bargain. Twitch has clear potential to play an important role in the future in TV and entertainment. Compare that to i.e. Snapchat...
$1 billion but all in cash. Sensible sellers...
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#29My son watches a lot of Starcraft tournaments on Twitch and his immediate response was that YouTube might actually improve the infrastructure so that they could handle streaming to everyone who wants to watch.
Sure, THIS CONTENT IS UNAVAILABLE IN YOUR REGION
Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?
#30It's worth noting that Twitch partially became popular because it wasn't YouTube , and gamers could stream without content restrictions (e.g. copyright and region) Miraculously, this could end up making YouTube comments even worse .
Are you suggesting that thus far that Twitch somehow was exempt from copyright claims?!
It's much, much harder to exert copyright on live content, in contrast to YouTube's ContentID system.
Twitch has taken down streams of unreleased games (which is fair because Twitch makes this rule very explicit), but that's still on an ad hoc basis.