Streamer discovers that a site sells his Twitch clips

The streamer Matthew „Mizkif“ Rinaudo discovered that a website on the internet is selling his Twitch clips for up to $700. The site uses the technique “NFT.” Particularly shocking: The site even sold clips of the late WoW streamer Reckful. Mizkif involved his lawyer.

This was the surprise for Mizkif: The Twitch streamer Mizkif learned from his chat: There is a site that sells NFT clips of him.

Mizkif was in shock and visited the site in disbelief. His initial reaction was:

„That’s money I could be making!”
Mizkif, Twitch streamer

Quickly, Mizkif was furious, cursing continuously and barely able to contain himself when he saw that the site promised buyers: They could buy and collect a piece of Twitch history here.

When he searched for his own name on the site, he found NFT clips that were going for up to $700. That amounts to about €590.

NFT (Non-Fungible Token) is a technique that allows digital content to be marked as “uniques.” This turns a Twitch clip, which is actually infinitely copyable, into a limited collector’s item that can be sold or traded.

This was Mizkif’s reaction: The Twitch streamer contacted the site’s operator and quickly engaged in a direct message conversation. The site operator stated that they had only listed clips from streamers who had allowed it.

But Mizkif said he had never allowed anything. Moreover, the site also sold clips of the late WoW streamer Reckful. Mizkif said he would really like to know how Reckful allowed this – after his death – (via twitch).

Now the site operator said: He had bought clips himself and passed the cryptocurrency Ethereum to the streamers. He apparently wanted to get the site off the ground this way.

Lawyer warns site operator: What you are doing here is not okay

Mizkif brought in more streamers and his lawyer.

The lawyer made it clear to the site operator that he was in the wrong and could not simply sell Twitch clips of others. Even if he uttered the magic word “NFT”:

„Hello, I am Mizkif’s lawyer and others. And I was also Byron’s lawyer [referring to Reckful]. I am deeply involved in NFTs and equally deep in copyright issues. Everything you are saying is incorrect. There are hundreds of years of copyright. NFTs have changed how technology works, but they haven’t changed the principles of copyright.
What you are doing here is absolutely not okay.”