Bots banned… on Twitch

It's not just the live music industry grappling with the problem of illicit software – just ask execs at Amazon's gaming/music live-streaming platform

News By IQ | 3 March 2017

Twitch's booth at PAX South 2016 in San Antonio, Texas © Daniel Benavides

A prolific operator of bots on popular live-streaming platform Twitch has been slapped with an injunction ordering him to shut down his business.

Justin Johnson, one of seven defendants, was the target of a lawsuit by the company and its parent, Amazon, for selling software to artificially boost streamers’ viewer numbers.

Several of the most-followed streamers on the service, known as partners, are entitled to a share of ad revenue. The complaint alleged the defendants “design, sell, and deploy bot…

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