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November 25, 2013

Some PS4 Users Live Streaming More Than Just Game Play

LIVINGROOM, USA—It did not take long for people live streaming on PlayStation 4 via Twitch to bring more to the screen than is allowed in the terms and conditions. We mean sex, of course. Now, according to engadget.com, Twitch has reported that it needs to crack down on PS4 streams. "The company has taken to its Twitter account to remind users that broadcasting via the console's Playroom feature, which uses Sony's PlayStation Eye camera to stream to Twitch and uStream, must have a gaming focus or risk having their account suspended," reported the site. "Most users, including the husband and wife team behind The Spartan Show, have kept within Twitch's terms of service, but others have decided the console provides the perfect platform to broadcast sexual content and host non-gaming shows." According to Kotaku, dealing with rule-breakers is nothing new for Twitch, which "has been around for years and despite its terms of use and its warnings, people break the rules all the time and get punished accordingly. "The difference here," continued Kotaku, "is 1) the content is being served on an app maintained by Sony itself, not a Twitch website. 2) It's on a console, and the content is apparently immune to parental controls. While searching for livestream casts is limited to a keyword (a game title, or something else) 'Playroom' could easily become a shorthand for anything-goes videos starring the performers themselves." The site contacted Twitch and got the following reply: "Twitch has a very strict terms of service policy which is outlined here. We are very vigilant about removing content that breaks the TOS guidelines and depending on the severity of the violation we will either ban or suspend accounts. In addition to our own efforts, the Twitch community is unique in that it likes to flag content they suspect or know is a breach of our TOS. Like any social network from YouTube to Facebook, there will always be a very small minority of users who attempt to circumvent the rules. As such, our advice is to report it right away and our staff will be quick to act on it if they haven't already. In terms of privacy settings, those are up are to the respective devices." It's going to be an interesting holiday season. As Kotaku's Owen Good concludes, "Neither Sony nor Twitch have done anything wrong, nor anything negligent, but I wonder if either know what they've signed up for here, particularly with regards to Playroom. It's possible that, again, the experience of those who do use a console service as intended will be altered or harmed because someone used it to a perverse extreme. Because it can broadcast users, it wouldn't surprise me to see Playroom removed from the list of games that can share video, to Twitch or anywhere else." Xbox One, by the way, is scheduled to incorporate live streaming early next year.

 
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