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  • Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations

    Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations

    Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modelled on its own, other companies began to corroborate with their own negative experiences with Streamlabs. Among those were the makers of OBS, a…