The opening ceremonies were held today for BlizzCon, the annual Blizzard Entertainment fan event Devil, Starcraft, World Of Warcraft, Hearthstoneand more: get together to celebrate the company’s games, and reviews everything that comes new things. And, despite being completely online this year (or “BlizzConline,” as it has been awkwardly discouraged), the event has still had some major revelations., including the news this fan favorite Devil II it is being remastered and reissued later this year. What was not the BlizzCon 2021, however, it was a lot of fun, at least until Metallica took the stage.
In any other year, one of the biggest potato rock bands in the world that would stay with the collective orcs of Blizzard’s fan base would be another moment of hype creation for BlizzCon attendees. This year, however, the opening ceremonies were airing online, both through the official BlizzCon, YouTube and Twitch website. And you know what happens when you play licensed music on the Internet, right, right? True: copyright issues.
Per Uproxx, James’ audio, Lars and the boys ’performance apparently came out as usual on YouTube and the BlizzCon page, though everything seems to have been removed from the event’s YouTube upload. But on Twitch … On Twitch, things didn’t go so well. That is, even though he was hosting the company’s official twitchgaming channel, the performance was disastrous. preceded by a chyron stating that “the next musical performance is subject to copyright protection by the appropriate holder.” And this happened:
(You can see for yourself Event Twitch broadcast; Metallica things start at about 1:10:00.)
And, look: we can demonstrate that someone to Twitch intentionally chosen the most rogue, the majority Zelda forest-ass imaginable music to make Metallica vibrate their little hearts, instead of issuing your copyright music (aand, therefore, having to deal with the possibility of emitting one of its omnipresents DMCA withdrawal notices to themselves)? Obviously not, just as we cannot show definitive evidence that Twitch it was then changed to, as, “lo-fi rhythms to publish”To end the set. It is entirely possible that this was the case only, you know, copyright-free audio than Twitch had on hand, which they then simply chose to dub one of the most popular rock bands of all time. On the other hand, us tin prove that it is extremely fun to see this happen, especially – as many people have pointed out – as it is Metallica at least partially responsible for the restrictive nature of many online music streaming laws that dominate the Internet today, after his high profile a campaign against Napster back at the dawn of the MP3.