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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?

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Post by robryan »

Trufa wrote: post #46
kawsper wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, Twitch livestreams is unwatchable for me most of the times I have tried to use it. Youtube on the other hand, while available, have worked quite good.

It's funny that my experience is the complete opposite, I wonder if it's just our confirmation bias, or the fact that we are too small a sample. It could also be that us being in different countries (I assume) impacts a lot in our experiences.

Yeah, different countries/ providers really impacts peoples experience. On the whole it does seem to be better for more people now though.

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by chilldream »

ughee wrote: post #25
minimaxir wrote: post #5

It'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?!

Large companies tend to err on the side of taking down more than they legally "have to". I know of YouTube videos that were taken down because of copyright claims that were outright false (that is, the entity making the claim didn't even have any rights to the material that was allegedly being infringed). There's a lot of room to be more lenient than YT and still on the right side of the law.

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by scrollaway »

ntumlin wrote: post #117
gedrap wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not pretend, many of us would do the same. Many people would quickly forget their opinion for $1M. And we are talking a billion. Can't judge those guys.

It kind of makes me sad to think of all the bad things I would do/let happen for $1 billion, or even $1 million.

I'd do a lot of bad things for a few millions. I do believe I'd spend a large part of the rest of those billions making things right. I hope.

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by robryan »

United857 wrote: post #36
arrrg wrote: post #12

That’s sad. Less competition, worse both for those watching and making content. Makers of (gaming-related) content for YouTube – worried about the future of YouTube – have often already been relying on Twitch to provide them some stability, to stand on more than one leg. This competition also insured that YouTube couldn’t do literally anything. Makers of content had a place to go if things didn’t work out. This is a…

Don't forget Kamcord, the other player in this space (and another YC company). Twitch isn't everything.

From a quick look it is videos, not streaming? Also mobile only? It isn't really currently the same space.

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by kevinwang »

cjhopman wrote: post #159
keypusher wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitch currently accounts for ~1.5% of all U.S. bandwidth.

I find that incredibly unlikely. Do you have a source?

It's mentioned at the bottom of the article, and it links to http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by robryan »

thomasfortes wrote: post #23
owenwil wrote: post #18

This 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.

It can be, what people describe it as though is it is the digital equivalent to going to for example a football game. There is going to be a lot of toxic statements/ yelling made there as well but overall it adds to the hype of the event.

If you are watching a match with 100k people on Twitch of course there isn't going to be any valuable back and forward in chat but the chat stream as a whole adds to the experience.

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by mbesto »

dang wrote: post #152

Since this is unconfirmed, we added a question mark to the title.

Surely, YC knows whether this is true or not :)

But in all seriousness, shouldn't it just say the original title - "YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources". The Sources implying it's not publically confirmed, right?

Re: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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Post by dang »

mbesto wrote: post #168
dang wrote: post #152

Since this is unconfirmed, we added a question mark to the title.

Surely, YC knows whether this is true or not :) But in all seriousness, shouldn't it just say the original title - "YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources". The Sources implying it's not publically confirmed, right?

That headline still seems overstated given that other stories are contradicting it.

I suppose I should mention that I have zero information about this, other than what's appeared on HN.

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