Tokyo Olympics: Twitch banned xQc for livestreaming the Olympics

Tokyo Olympics: xQc is one of the biggest Twitch streamers with almost 6 million followers and a former professional Overwatch player. He got banned from twitch on July 28, 2021 potentially for live streaming the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Just before his channel got banned, it was seen that xQc was watching the Judo match between Japan’s Chizuru Arai and Austria’s Michaela Polleres.

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I THINK I GOT MY CHANNEL LIVE-DMCA’d. I TOOK NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE. REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT BUT I COUL’VE EASILY AVOIDED THIS. SORRY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING THE VIEWERS. I’LL BE BETTER/SMARTER NEXT TIME AND FOLLOW GUIDELINES MORE STRICTLY

— xQc (@xQc) July 28, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: After the ban, xQc responded to his fans by twitter saying that his channel might have got under live-DMCA. He believed that he took necessary precautions and didn’t expect this to happen. He had also apologized to his viewers and promised them to follow the guidelines more strictly.

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Twitter exploded with various opinions after the ban took place, some addressed the ban as absolute nonsense and claimed that twitch didn’t ban everybody who were also live streaming the Olympics. Others say the ban was deserved and xQc has violated a major Copyright guideline.

Check out how social media reacted to xQc ban:

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I THINK I GOT MY CHANNEL LIVE-DMCA’d. I TOOK NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE. REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT BUT I COUL’VE EASILY AVOIDED THIS. SORRY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING THE VIEWERS. I’LL BE BETTER/SMARTER NEXT TIME AND FOLLOW GUIDELINES MORE STRICTLY

— xQc (@xQc) July 28, 2021

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I THINK I GOT MY CHANNEL LIVE-DMCA’d. I TOOK NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE. REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT BUT I COUL’VE EASILY AVOIDED THIS. SORRY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING THE VIEWERS. I’LL BE BETTER/SMARTER NEXT TIME AND FOLLOW GUIDELINES MORE STRICTLY

— xQc (@xQc) July 28, 2021

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I THINK I GOT MY CHANNEL LIVE-DMCA’d. I TOOK NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE. REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT BUT I COUL’VE EASILY AVOIDED THIS. SORRY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING THE VIEWERS. I’LL BE BETTER/SMARTER NEXT TIME AND FOLLOW GUIDELINES MORE STRICTLY

— xQc (@xQc) July 28, 2021

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I THINK I GOT MY CHANNEL LIVE-DMCA’d. I TOOK NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE. REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT BUT I COUL’VE EASILY AVOIDED THIS. SORRY FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING THE VIEWERS. I’LL BE BETTER/SMARTER NEXT TIME AND FOLLOW GUIDELINES MORE STRICTLY

— xQc (@xQc) July 28, 2021

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Tokyo Olympics: It is not the first time that xQc got banned on twitch. This is the fourth time that the Canadian twitch streamer got banned since the start of the previous year. Twitch first banned him for three days on March 2020 and it was followed by another single day ban on May 2020. The last ban was seven days long for the streamer which came in the month of November. It is pretty unclear as to how much longer will twitch ban him this time as he violated some of the Copyright Acts.

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