Twitch begins to change its service now that Google’s in charge

8 Aug 2014

Steve Wright

Twitch has made more changes to its service after its recent acquisition by Google.

The service advised it will mute archived videos that contain “unauthorized third-party audio”. Past streams will be held between 14-60 days, with highlights under two hours stores indefinitely,

“In order to create a system that supports live and [archived streams] across the globe and on multiple platforms, we need to make significant changes to the way we’re currently storing video,” Twitch CEO Emmet Shear said.

Is this the first nail in Twitch’s coffin?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.