The dispute between Twitch streamer Kurt0411 and EA Sports is entering the next round. Now the FIFA-20 streamer has been banned on Twitch – for now for 24 hours. EA has issued a copyright strike against him: Apparently, they want to keep him out of their games.
This is the new blow: Twitch streamer Kurt0411 and EA Sports have been in a prolonged clash. Now the confrontation between both sides has reached the next level: Apparently, EA has ensured that the streamer’s Twitch channel has been banned for 24 hours.
Kurt explained this on Twitter. His current ban has nothing to do with his behavior on Twitch.
According to Kurt, an employee of EA Sports caused the channel to be banned based on a copyright strike. Recently, Kurt0411 had streamed content related to FIFA. It seems EA wants to prevent this with all their might.
No communication on the matter has occurred between both sides, Kurt stated. However, it seems that they have long since moved beyond that stage.
Companies taking action against channels via strikes has also happened in other games. For example, 2K used this option against a Borderlands-3 leaker; channel bans on YouTube also occurred in Fortnite.
Kurt0411 against EA Sports – a long story
What it’s about: The Twitch strike is just the next level of a dispute that has been going on for several months now. It started with issues from Kurt.
The first highlight of the dispute occurred when Kurt spat on an EA scarf on live camera and subsequently received a highly publicized tournament ban in November 2019.
At the end of February, Kurt was banned from all EA games and services. He had allegedly violated EA’s guidelines multiple times and threatened employees – something the streamer called a “witch hunt”.
Creating a new EA account only worked temporarily. It didn’t take long for EA to ban the streamer’s secondary account as well.
The streamer’s fans are expressing their displeasure on Twitter again. Recently, another curious incident caused unrest in the community:
