Back in February Iris Ophelia published an article over at New World Notes regarding live streaming Second Life : Quick Tips: SL Content Creators, Here’s How to Start Livestreaming Your Work.
In that blog post Iris provided a tip for the choice of hosting service to stream your work on :
Twitch.tv remains the most popular choice among Second Life streamers because it’s free and has a lot of momentum in the tech and gaming communities, but it’s not without its drawbacks.
However it seems all isn’t well in the world of live streaming Second Life via Twitch. In the comments of Iris’ article Jessica Pixel wrote :
Be careful streaming ‘non-games’ on Twitch. I actually had my account banned for 24 hours today while I was streaming myself scripting things in Second Life. Granted, I think that happens when someone reports you and my screen probably didn’t look like I was ‘playing’, even though I know there wasn’t anything questionable on my screen.
Jessica appealed her ban and was then told by a moderator of Twitch :
Your account was suspended for streaming Second Life, which is not permitted for streaming on our services. Do not do this again.
This raised quite a few questions, the first one being why is there a Second Life category on Twitch if it’s banned? Another being, if Second Life is banned, why won’t Twitch point this out?
Yesterday Iris Ophelia published a follow up article : Twitch Reportedly Suspending Users for Streaming Second Life – Competitor Hitbox “Happy” to Allow SL Streaming. Iris reported that there is talk of Second Life being banned from Twitch going back to January 2014.
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