Youtube (Google) purchased Twitch for $1 billion

[Wooks]

It's official now: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/07/24/google-buys-livestreaming-service-twitch

I'm what you could call a "Youtuber". I never streamed anything in my life but I've always been intrigued by the idea, but never convinced myself to open a Twitch account.

Now what? I know KSP-TV is Twitch based, does this changes anything? Is good news? Bad news?

[Kryten]

Youtube already does streaming anyway, they might just try to integrate it with that.

[vexx32]

This isn't really about KSP itself, so... let's shunt it to the Space Lounge.

[Athlonic]

Worst news of the year....

[notfruit]

Worst news of the year....

Well Facebook did buy Oculus...

[Greenfire32]

I know many youtubers made the switch to twitch (busta rymes!) when the third copyright war broke out, but now that twitch is one with youtube....

This isn't good news at all. Pretty soon all the TV in the country will be from comcast and all the internet video will be from youtube...

Monopolies are bad, mkay.

[NASAFanboy]

Oh noes!

Have I ever told you how much I hate big corporations who monopolize stuff? This is like a nuclear war to me .

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

But, Google is a good company. Isn't it?

[SolarLiner]

But, Google is a good company. Isn't it?

Except when it comes to Content ID and all that stuff. I'm a little YouTuber and there was some video that I had to re-upload with half a second muted or changed because YouTube auto tagged a "copyrighted" thing from nowhere.

This was especially true when I tried to make a Tomb Raider series back then in French (when I first started the channel); almost every cutscene was copyrighted and taken down.

Maybe there will be good things with this, but expect a lot of weird-to-bad things happening to Twitch: Google+ for example.

Or maybe worse: Twitch gets merged with YouTube streaming and bye bye future Twitch ...

[The Destroyer]

I recently started trying streaming with youtube. I wonder what will happen to twitch? Will it "merge" into youtube?

[lajoswinkler]

Bad news. Google is becoming incredibly irritating and intrusive.

The worst news would be if Google bought Facebook. Ho-ly mo-ly. Apocalypse.

[Thomas988]

I swear, by the time I'm an adult Apple and Google will be the only two companies on the planet. Can't they just accept what they have and not take over everything?

[Whirligig Girl]

I swear, by the time I'm an adult Apple and Google will be the only two companies on the planet. Can't they just accept what they have and not take over everything?

Then they'll merge into Buy n' Large.

[DJEN]

I know many youtubers made the switch to twitch (busta rymes!) when the third copyright war broke out, but now that twitch is one with youtube....

This isn't good news at all. Pretty soon all the TV in the country will be from comcast and all the internet video will be from youtube...

Monopolies are bad, mkay.

A historical example would be Eastern Asia. It developed into a China-centered monopoly. And it brought cultural assimilation, technological and ideological stagnation. Eventually making it lose the arms race and lose its culture.

When a certain culture group becomes powerful and has enough influence, it starts generating a monopoly. We never learn.

Edited July 27, 2014 by DJEN

[Special Agent Sigvan]

Placing bets on how long until Google rules the world.

I have 3 people with at least $500 each on seven minutes.