backwithan808

Isn’t most of Twitch’s value in its service (users, content, etc.) like most other social platforms?

I don’t recall hearing anything behind their technology that competitors couldn’t replicate, so I’m not sure how disruptive leaking their source code will be. I’m not into the gamer scene though, so if anyone knows please explain.

YouTube Music gives you access to their entire streaming catalog on-demand for free. Spotify and others only let you listen to stations and playlists for free, while limiting skips for free users. The trade off was that YouTube didn’t allow background play.

You’re giving way too much benefit of the doubt here. The companies could have suspended their "VIP" programs, leaving the cards to point to useless webpages.

But they were still fully operational, meaning they had no intention of stopping.