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Twitch Sings isn’t just shutting down early next year. The Amazon-owned streaming company also explained that due to “contractual obligations,” starting December 1 of this year videos and clips on Twitch featuring Twitch Sings will start being removed.

This announcement to shut down Twitch Sings and remove all videos featuring the game comes three months after a massive DMCA takedown hit many Twitch streamers and thousands of clips on the site that featured licensed music. In the past Twitch has banned steamers over the use of copyrighted music. This latest move, to remove Twitch Sings clips, seems to be a precautionary step before DMCA claims start flooding the site once Twitch’s contracts with the various rights holders expire.

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In a gesture of goodwill, Twitch is granting Twitch Sings users access to a “backlog” of over 400 new songs that had been planned for future release in the game. But on January 1 the music will stop and with no official Twitch Sings replacement announced, it might not return.

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