See Metallica Perform For Whom the Bell Tolls at BlizzCon 2021
However, one livestream s broadcast replaced band playing their own music to avoid DMCA takedown
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Metallica performed their “For Whom the Bell Tolls” live virtually from their California headquarters as part of this year’s BlizzCon, the annual presentation for video game makers Blizzard Entertainment.
The heavy metal legends previously appeared during BlizzCon 2014. This year’s conference went livestream-only due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “We would love to be there this year, but obviously can’t be, so here we are, and this is for you,” James Hetfield told the virtual audience prior to performing the Ride the Lightning classic.
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The Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch made a mess of things Friday during a livestream, and it couldn t have happened to a nicer band. Specifically, Metallica, known for (among other things) its 2000 lawsuit against the music-sharing service Napster, was streaming a concert for Blizzard Entertainment s annual news event, BlizzCon, when Twitch Gaming dubbed over the heavy metal with what sounded like elevator music.Â
the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee
While the immediate cause of the mess-up was unclear, fans were quick to speculate that the swap was a result of automated systems attempting to avoid any copyright issues inherent in streaming Metallica s music.Â