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02.20.2021 by M Donaldson // Leave a Comment

There are problems with the DMCA, and big corporations do have too much power in the music industry. But Amazon alone is 20 times the size of the entire recorded music business. When people are encouraged to direct all their ire at the DMCA (not at Amazon’s failure to implement it correctly) or at the music biz, it improves Amazon’s bargaining position in licensing negotiations, and imperils Congress’s ability to achieve needed reforms.

— @future_of_music

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/rickyftw/status/1362900300223246336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1362900300223246336%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2021%2F02%2F20%2Ftwitch-mutes-live-metallica-concert-and-replaces-stream-with-generic-library-music.html

This whole thread is worth a read:

Much of the chatter about Twitch and Metallica and copyright is getting the facts and the history wrong. Quick thread.

— Future of Music Coalition (@future_of_music) February 20, 2021

Categories // MEMORA8ILIA Tags // Amazon, DMCA, Metallica, Twitch

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