Fans of the official games section of Twitch hoping to enjoy Metallica’s virtual performance a BlizzCon, Blizzard’s annual gaming convention, on Friday heard something that was definitely not Metallica.
As he explains the Virgin, viewers of many platforms, including Blizzard’s Twitch and YouTube channels, successfully appeared on “For Whom The Bell To”lls. “ However, for some strange reason, Twitch’s official gaming channel decided to completely change the mood shortly after the song began. He cut Metallica and replaced it with … something else.
Check it out for yourself.
Now, it took me a while to find the words to describe this non-Metallica song. At first, it looked a bit like Christmas. Then I thought it was angelic, but not really. A fellow Gizmodo cleverly suggested that it look like a remix of Legend of Zelda music, which certainly made more sense. But that begs the question, doesn’t it? strange to play music that sounds like Blizzard’s competitors?
That still doesn’t solve the mystery of which song replaced Twitch on Metallica. After scratching my head, I had a “aha!” moment and Shazamed did. According to Shazam, the song in question is “Toys in space” by Ecobel. A visit to Epidemic sound, who manages Ecobel’s music, quickly tells me that this artist is ‘ambient’, ‘floating’, ‘dreamy’ and ‘hopeful’. It definitely doesn’t remind me of Metallica.
Now let’s move on to the other question: why would Twitch do that? It seems to have been a problem related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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“The next musical performance is subject to copyright protection by the appropriate owner,” he told message in another stream of the complete representation with an introduction to the band just before.
In other words, Blizzard probably got music rights for its own channels, but not for Twitch channels. Gizmodo contacted Twitch to find out what happened. We will make sure to update this blog if we receive news.
It seems like a big mess on the part of Twitch, which we imagine he tried desperately to fix the lack of rights by playing “Toys in Space.” I have to say, it sure was memorable.