How XQC is Trying to Keep His Stream Song In the Midst of Twitch DMCA

The past few weeks have been extremely difficult for Twitch streamers that regularly use music within their streams. This is due primarily toa massive wave of DMCA requeststhat were sent to streamers for use of music that they did not have the rights to. However, what has made this event the most stressful for these streamers is the threat of their Twitch account being banned without providing the cause of their infraction.

Naturally, this has led to many popular streamers cleansing their archives of any and all clips on their channels as every single clip could count as a possible infraction of DMCA policies and cause their Twitch account to be deleted. While many streamers have chosen to seek out alternatives to the music they normally play on their streams, theoften polarizing streamer xQcseems to have another idea in mind.

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While in the clip xQc mentions tweeting at The Killers in order to get permission, in reality he would need to get in contact with the band’s licensing rights holder. For The Killers, this would mean purchasing a license from Universal Music Publishing Group which would likely be very expensive.

While xQc seems willing to drop as much money as possible into securing this one song from The Killers, other streamers are not nearly as lucky. These other streamers are being forced to turn to Twitch’s new service: Soundtrack. Soundtrack is a Twitch creator tool that recently entered beta that allows streamers to utilize music that has beencleared of possible DMCA infractions.

While this tool may seem like a great alternative, it was recently reported thatSoundtrack features several songs that Twitch does not have the licensing rights to. According to a letter obtained by Variety, the RIAA stated that Twitch has been negligent of the proper licenses that are required for it to operate a feature like Soundtrack. Twitch refuted those claims, saying that Soundtrack is a great service for streamers to discover new artists and is a fully licensed service.