""We want every broadcaster on Twitch to be protected from potential liability," he said. "No matter how remote you might feel the issue is, we aren't willing to run the risk someone's life gets ruined over this.""

That's kinda bullshit right there honestly. IF they cared about their users, they would have been doing this from the start. This is entirely because they're being eaten by Youtube and youtube does this to protect -itself- from the IP vultures of the world.

The only reason live streams aren't going to be affected is because at present they haven't a clue how to seriously implement it, as he pretty much states himself with the "even if we could" attachment to his statement.

I do fully expect them to hand out "strikes" on this instead however. With after so many strikes of automatically detected infringement occurring, the account is frozen. And of course that would suck for those being hit up by false positives - either innocently, or maliciously. (As in people claiming copyright to completely bogus shit among other possibilities.)