The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twitch has filed a ...

Amid a rise in harassment campaigns carried out by automated bots, companies like Twitch are resorting to a more targeted approach—less “ban hammer,” and more like a bunch of little ban daggers.

The creator of software designed to artificially inflate a streamer's viewer count on Twitch has effectively had his business shuttered by a California judge's ruling. Support streamers the ...

Some bots are helpful, like Facebook's NBA bot, which finds your favorite footage so you don't have to. Other bots mean well even if they fail spectacularly, like Microsoft's Tay. And then there are ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch ...

Surely we have all at least heard of Twitch by now. For the as-yet uninitiated: imagine you had your own TV channel. What would you do on it? Although Twitch really got going as a place for gamers to ...