"Perhaps the streamer pays a percentage of his donations to the producer of the song, but only if there is a complaint from that individual."

I'd still argue that Rio's is 'awesomer'. This one in Warsaw covers almost the entire length of the city. Want to see a map of Rio with its subway system?

You don't have cheap friends?? Wow, you're lucky. Cherish your friends, because the day will come when you'll meet a cheap one (or one of them will be "cheapified").

First of all, thanks for presenting an argument (and a good one at that) without directly attacking me. I have a counter-argument though.

Well, to be fair, Glasgow has an area of 175.5 km². Rio is a 1,182.3 km² behemoth.

Who cares? Most people are ignorant. They like seeing heroes and villains, but reality is always more complicated than that.

First, my God, thank you for understanding my point.

What? Really?

OK, you win. Not by much, though.

Now that's just impractical. Imagine how much time it would take to clean this thing.

Well, at least in Rio you can't get lost. Even if you wanted to.

Pfft. That's nothing compared with the huge, awesome subway in Rio de Janeiro.

Well, sure. I just said "music" because that's what Twitch is doing. Probably because record labels don't like their artists' songs being broadcasted without permission and game developers actually do like their games being streamed (except Nintendo, of course).

Yes. I mean, of course it's not cool right? But Twitch shouldn't be in the business of facilitating copyright infringement. If people should be angry about anything, they should be angry at copyright law. Not at the company that doesn't want to break it.

How do you think it decides what songs to mute?

It may be a lost sale, it may not be a lost sale. But that's not the point. The point is that it should be up to the copyright owner to decide whether or not he/she wants his work on a stream. They are the ones who have to decide if it's worth it for them or not. As an example, I wouldn't want you using my work in any…

That's a douche move by the copyright owner though.

It's not about "lost sales". IP protection is about preventing other people from using your work to their profit. It doesn't matter if most people 'think' that having their songs on a stream would be beneficial to the copyright owner or not. The point is that the streamer is using the work of others without permission.

This works just fine if you're having dinner with one friend. But if you're doing it with upwards of 6, things start to get a bit messy, especially if one of your friends (there's always one) is cheap.

Don't get me wrong, I always tip and it's always more than 20%. But I don't know, expecting me to do it and getting mad if I don't give as much as you expected doesn't sound right. It makes the tip become more of a obligatory payment than a showing of gratitude for good service. Which completely defeats the purpose…