Controversial Counter-Strike Streamer "PhantomLord" Sues Twitch
Twitch, the streaming service owned by Amazon, deleted his channel shortly thereafter, proclaiming that he was in breach of service over their rules. But apparently, Varga hasn’t forgotten this action, though, and, nearly two years after having his channel axed, he’s decided to take the streaming service to court.
Varga filed a complaint with the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, noting that he’s still due monetary damages for having his channel banned.
The company had previously posted a set of rules back on July 14, 2016, noting that they were frowning on the idea of CS:GO based gambling broadcasts, as well as other gambling services – especially those being hyped on channels by popular streamers. Varga was especially guilty of this, as he managed to hype his CSGOShuffle site on his stream without disclosing any sort of connection to it. Varga eventually shut it down after the developers of Counter-Strike, Valve, threatened legal action.
But that hasn’t stopped Varga from being bitter to Twitch. According to this Dot Esports report, he feels that the site committed breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation in removing him from the platform.
He also noted that he felt that gambling was permissible on the platform based on communications with his partnerships manager Jason “Opie” Babo – despite the fact that, again, they noted the rule changes just five days before they removed his channel. Varga did include conversations with Babo in the filing to try and give it more legal weight, but we’re not sure how effective it’ll be just yet.
Twitch hasn’t responded to the lawsuit yet, but it’s an interesting precedent, especially where Varga’s gambling past is concerned. We’ll see how this plays out in the weeks ahead, but it seems like he’s going to need more to win, particularly with Twitch making its rules very clear just days before Varga was removed.
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TomPosted:
LOL, I remember this guy back in the day. created a terrible CSGO lotto site just like Tmartn and played it but letting him have the upper hand. Dont even see why he is suing because he'll never win. Like most of the people here are saying, just wants the money since he's running low on the cash he won before.
LiaPosted:
He will deffo lose this case. Twitch clearly state in their rules that he wasn't allowed to do what he did.
FamousPosted:
Now, this is the kind of news I like seeing. This will be an interesting case. I kinda want twitch to lose this one.
QTPosted:
Devil If you're caught red handed breaking rules, especially on a streaming site where potentially thousands watch there's no way out of it. Without s doubt this will be a waste of time.
He is probably losing money. After this overall he will probably lose more money than he shouldve if he didnt do this. I big waster of time if you ask me.
AD4MPosted:
One way to get back in Twichs' good books... He breached the T&C of Twitch, he breached his own contract. Waste of time and money on his part.
CyberPunkPosted:
if you get banned/deleted from one place try and appeal it, use your social media to help direct people to your new platform and reign your special snowflake neck in a bit.
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