Amazon officially buys Twitch.tv.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/24/googles-1b-purchase-of-twitch-confirmed-joins-youtube-for-new-video-empire/

RIP Twitch.

Pretty easy to have seen this coming, considering all the dealing the site's been doing with You Tube.

So, how many more sites does Google need to buy before they get that free turkey dinner?

That "free turkey dinner" being a euphemism for world domination right?

Well of course, that's too obvious to even feel the need to point out, isn't it?

Huh. Google is making serious way towards owning the internet.

I love how people are treating this as the death of Twitch, and yet everyone I follow who uses Twitch has zero issues with it.

I've never used Twitch (only watched those "Twitch Plays Pokemon" videos). However, I recall Youtube having a lot fewer advertisements before Google came in.

So good luck with that.

Twitch already had advertisements, and I'm pretty sure it's solely at the discretion of the streamers for that. It'd be kinda hard to force ads on streams, since they'd disrupt the flow of the streams and people would get pissed about it.

edited 27th Jul '14 10:38:16 AM by Odd1

That totally isn't exaggerating people in the slightest.

The first post in this thread is literally "RIP Twitch." And it's even by you!

Let me put it better then, as I did an admittedly terrible job.

Things aren't going to go south sooner than they announce the deal.

That would just be an unrealistic expectation.

edited 27th Jul '14 5:57:34 PM by Grounder

Probably for the best, really. The Twitch admins have proven to not be very good at adminning (LOOKING AT YOU, HORROR).

The Copyright issues have already begun. VOD content is having their audio muted for having copyrighted music. Even some ingame music is causing videos to be muted.

Guys, don't count the meteors before they start falling. The initial article's pretty suspicious, what with the site being unwilling to cite their sources beyond "sources familiar with the matter." Also, I think that they would have had to start the sound censoring regardless of their legal status, or else they would get sued to death. And a dead Twitch is always worse than a Google-owned Twitch in my eyes.

I posted my breakdown of all this in the other thread (I don't know why people started a second one), so I'll link it for you.

Apparently the Google buyout of Twitch hasn't happened yet, because Amazon has been reported to be interested in buying Twitch themselves.

Interesting development.

I think we should change the title of this thread, because the Amazon deal has been made official and will be fully done later this year.

So, who saw that coming? I sure didn't.

Should be interesting to see what people who opposed the Google buyout think.

Well, how does Amazon treat its subsidiaries? From what I've heard, they let them run themselves independently without meddling too much, but I don't know for sure.

Hopefully that means they'll roll back the stupid content ID shit.

Doubtful. That was Twitch's doing.

Yeah, apparently, that was kinda planned for a while, just implemented really sloppily. They have become a pretty huge website. It only makes sense to do this preemptively before the copyright lawyers get on their asses.

So now that Amazon has been confirmed to buying Twitch, what do you guys think about it? Is it pretty much as bad as it could have been if Google bought it? Not as bad? Worse? Does it matter?