If this was the case then why would the doc even care if twitch let him go?
Dr. Disrespect Permabanned From Twitch??????
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Nothing is set in stone, there’s always uncertainty before the agreement is set in stone
Dude was very, very pro-twitch when the streaming war kicked off. Don't see why he'd leave the #1 platform after seeing a streamer larger than him do it and not sustain the numbers. It's pretty evident that viewers want to stay on twitch. For Doc to make that type of a move after shytting on people for doing it seems stupid and backwards to me.
I mean...there already are ways to do the right thing as far as that goes. Streamers need to understand that an artist's music isn’t there’s to use. There are plenty of sites now that offer cheap licenses to some dope music. I personally use artlist for my video production projects. A yearly sub is $150 IIRC and you get unlimited perpetual licenses for every track to download.
If a person wants to play an artists music then that artist needs to be compensated. Artists have already had the value of music diluted to oblivion, I don’t see any reason streamers should be allowed to get away with using someone else’s content with impunity.
Spotify is not owned by Google
if all of this was for a platform switch I’m going to be disappointed 
What I am proposing is that they do get compensated tho.
Since Amazon owns Twitch, they should integrate Amazon Music as the only music service that their partners/streamers can use while they Live. The labels/artists love the exposure that they get from anywhere, let's be honest, they just strike down the content that's up because the stream for the song that is being played only counts for 1 play... even tho the streamer could have thousands of people watching.
If they figured in the total number of viewers/listeners in these streams and compensated the artist that way, it increases their stream totals and the platform's partners is another avenue for artists to get paid.
That BRIME q&a thread on Twitter is a complete crap show. It’s honestly looking like fake news all over the place and BRIME (whoever they are) got hit with the jackpot of lucky free publicity. I’m leaning towards once the smoke clears all the platform jumping rumors will be debunked.
According to their twitter, BRIME has 4 employees, no website, and nothing ready for launch at all. A lot of their responses don’t come off as professionally polished either.
According to their twitter, BRIME has 4 employees, no website, and nothing ready for launch at all. A lot of their responses don’t come off as professionally polished either.
I get what you’re saying 100%. They’re absolutely set up to pay royalties for listens. What they aren’t set up for is allowing a 3rd party to use licensed music for that 3rd parties content being hosted on their platform. For example, if a club plays licensed music, they are supposed to be paying out royalties to the artists. (I get some don’t but I’m talking about in the legal sense of the way things are SUPPOSED to go). Another more pertinent example is how Coca Cola, or some other big brand, wants to use a Christina Aguilera song or whatever for their ad, they would have to pay royalties.
in the case of a streamer, that streamer is using the music for their content without a license for to use that song in that way. It’s not Spotify’s responsibility to secure a license for a streamer to use an artists song. You get what I’m saying? Spotify is currently set up to pay royalties for hosting the music themselves, not for someone else to host the music on their 3rd party content.
To your point, the connection is close though and I’m sure they’re equipped to figure it all out. The licensing issue is just not clear cut because you have to get into who actual holds the license and who actually pays out the royalties.
It makes 0 sense, as recent as last week Doc was shytting on Mixer when the news of them shutting down broke. That didn't sound like someone who was entertaining the idea of taking on that same kind of challenge.
The other popular theory about Twitch using a prior incident to take action now also doesn't add up. They agreed on a new contract in March, there's no way they had a change of heart 4 months later when Doc's viewership was still stable as ever.