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Youtube content creators should unite and make some sort of union and reach out to Twitch.tv to see what they can offer and migrate off YouTube.

I feel terrible for a lot of these people because they put out genuinely entertaining videos for free, and make a lot of their income off it.

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I agree, at the very least Twitch should recognize this as an opportunity to expand their market. If they become the place for all game videos and live streams they really have something big going on.

They already host previous live recordings so I would think they could at least leverage that to offer pre-recorded videos.

AND this is the reason why Twitch won't touch this with a ten foot pole. They would lose everything if copyright = seeing someone play a game.

That's what everyone on Youtube should do. If no one put up with their bullshit bot takedowns, they wouldn't happen.

And then that other video site can figure out which bot they will implement when Viacom slaps them with a billion dollar lawsuit.

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