Recently, streamers flooded the platform Twitch.TV with a torrent of porn, terror videos, and other illegal content. The category for the abandoned game “Artifact” turned into the red-light district of the streaming platform. Twitch is now taking strict and legal action against the streamers.
Who were the trolls? At the end of May, trolls used the livestreaming platform Twitch.TV for their “jokes”. They lingered in the category of the game “Artifact”, but showed no gameplay, only
- porn,
- terror videos like the attack in Christchurch,
- or illegal movies.
Legal action against Mr. and Mrs. Unknown 1-100
This is how TwitchTV is suing: The company filed a lawsuit in California on June 14 against the anonymous streamers who were banned for their streams in this context. The lawsuit is titled “John and Jane Does 1 through 100”. John Doe and Jane Doe are English placeholder names used for unidentified persons.
The lawsuit concerns the following points
- trademark infringement
- breach of contract with TwitchTV
- fraud
- unlawful use of the company’s platform
The lawsuit comes after Twitch had already implemented measures like two-factor authentication against the trolls. Additionally, they prevented the streamers flooding the platform with illegal content by requiring new accounts to wait a few days before starting their first broadcast.
How were they trolling? Players trolled in the Artifact category on Twitch-TV because hardly anyone was playing the game:
- In the weeks leading up to the invasion, this game category on TwitchTV averaged 20 – 30 viewers.
- During the invasion, it peaked at 16,000 viewers.
The trolls went live in the Artifact category with their streams, showing illegal content right from the start and were banned by Twitch about 5 minutes later. As reported by Dotesports, they quickly returned with new accounts and broadcasted the same illegal content.
Some users were even said to have made speedruns competing over who would get banned faster.
Recently, Twitch also banned the big DrDisrespect. He was live streaming from a public restroom and showed people urinating.
