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Poker Players React to Twitch DMCA Copyright Strikes

A recent spate of DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notifications has hit the Twitch poker community, with several popular streamers forced to delete hundreds of hours of their own content.

The issue is not confined to poker, with DragonForce guitarist Herman Li suspended from Twitch for playing his own music on stream.

Official Twitch Email

In an image obtained by PokerNews, channels who had previously been subject to now or more DMCA takedown notifications were advised to delete any "unlicensed copyrighted material."

Twitch went on to say: "If you are unsure about the contents of your archive you can delete all of it.