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Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want (www.theverge.com)
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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

Makes sense from Twitch's perspective. A few streamers signed non-exclusive contracts to stream on other sites. Twitch's old policy was preventing those streamers from also streaming on Twitch at the same time, so they were losing tons of views. Now they get those people back.