Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy
Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 21, 20208m 47s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
As Liverpool soccer player Roberto Firmino clutched out the only goal of the club's December 21 FIFA Club World Cup match before a live audience of over 45,000, at least twice as many fans were tuned in somewhere better suited to FIFA 20, the video game: the streaming platform Twitch. While the game roiled on, three of the top 10 livestreams listed in Twitch’s directory were simulcasts of the FIFA Club World Cup match—with 14,000, 33,000, and 53,000 viewers respectively.
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices