Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch channels look like they have more viewers, followers, ...

The gamer-watching platform says it needs to protect a "fair playing field." By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large It’s a new day in the entertainment industry, and few lawsuits speak to where ...

Back in June 2016, Twitch filed a legal complaint against seven makers of 'view bots', software used to inflate the apparent view count, follower count, and chat activity on a Twitch channel. Almost ...

The creator of software designed to artificially inflate a streamer's viewer count on Twitch has effectively had his business shuttered by a California judge's ruling. Support streamers the ...

Twitch has won a key victory in its ongoing campaign against illegal bots. The firm has been awarded over $1.37m after a California judge ruled in its favour, Kotaku reports. The case was agains the ...

SAN JOSE (CN) – Twitch, Amazon’s live-streaming video game site, sued seven botmakers and their 12 “bot packages,” claiming they distort numbers and deceive Twitch and its ...

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Searching for an available PS5 or Xbox Series X has been a much more difficult process than some expected, but one Twitch channel has a plan – creating a bot that does it automatically. The ...

Popular streamer Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel recently lost two million followers, but thankfully for him, most of these accounts were bots that were artificially boosting his numbers and messing with his ...