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variety.com/2014/digital ··· 1185204/quote:
Googles YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact.
The deal, in an all-cash offer, is expected to be announced imminently, sources said. If completed the acquisition would be the most significant in the history of YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006 for $1.65 billion. The impending acquisition comes after longtime Google ad exec Susan Wojcicki was named CEO of YouTube earlier this year.
I could see this going two ways, One is they leave twitch alone and let it do its thing.
Two they fully borg it and suddenly letting nightbot play music triggers a copyright lockdown of your channel basically ruining one of the biggest things of streaming, people using background music. Or game companies who do not exactly like their content being streamed could now cry to youtube and get streamers pulled. I know Nintendo had a phase where they claimed Lets Play was copyright infringement.