If you don’t listen to music but stream with the game’s natural soundtrack and a copyright protected song comes on, you can still get a DMCA strike - fair use law does not apply to music that is an organic part of the game, meaning you need to play the game either with the volume turned down or in ‘Streamer Mode’.
The only issue is that many games come with licensed music these days - especially GTA, consistently one of the most popular games on Twitch - and DMCA law applies to all of these. You’d think the solution to this issue would be simple - don’t play any music while you stream and you’re golden. There’s a new solution for that problem, and it seems to be a pretty ingenious one, but exactly how sustainable is it? DMCA law is complicated, but for now, let’s keep it simple it means you can’t play music you don’t own on Twitch. It’s why Disney has repeatedly pushed to change copyright laws to keep its characters out of the public domain, and why the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is the bane of many a Twitch streamer. We live in a world of crossovers, franchises, multiverses, and Space Jam sequels, where just owning a property can see you set for life if said property is valuable enough.
Few laws are applied as stringently as copyright laws.
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