I understand why you guys did this, I just think it’s the wrong policy. I’m actually not that interested in my own archives because I do save them locally with OBS, I’m interested in other archives of people who stream my game, and doing cool stuff with them for the community (both mine and twitch’s) with the full permission of the streamers (even ignoring that it’s my game they’re streaming, which is a whole 'nother can of worms, cf. the recent Nintendo youtube fiasco). Saying that you can scrape the data easily is kind of a red herring…sure, as I said above, but that’s just putting friction into the system that will only prevent cool and interesting uses of the archives, it won’t stop somebody who wants to steal something. It’s exactly backwards from what you should be doing. I also think the “guilty-until-proven-innocent” take on IP-use over the past decade has done a lot of harm to innovation, even ignoring the legal concept of “fair use” and whatnot. You should err on the side of sharing, and then come down on somebody who abuses it, not make it hard to share for everybody from the get-go. Anyway, thanks for the response, it’s just unfortunate that you guys have taken this approach, I was hoping that since you guys are still a young agile company that you’d be a bit more clueful about the natural grain of information flow on the internet, rather than fighting it every step of the way like everybody else. Twitch is still great and I love you guys, but this is disappointingly short-sighted in my opinion.
I’ll drop it at this point because it’s become more about internet information philosophy than a simple API request.
Chris