This is obviously a pattern that is several years old now. Well it should, because the “Stream Deck” is an official El Gato piece of hardware that allows all of the same functionality mentioned above, accept it launched in 2018. They did so anyway and followed up by filing a trademark.” “Near the Launch of SLOBS (Streamlabs OBS), Streamlabs reached out to use about using the OBS name. Several hours following the Twitch announcement and subsequent fallout, OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) made their own statement as to the level of character embodied at Streamlabs. However, the internet has a proclivity for justice and this circumstance is no different. Lightstream team is great and we’ve reached out directly to them to apologize.”Īnd indeed changed their text is. We removed the text as soon as we found out. Text on the landing page was a placeholder text that went into production by error. Shortly after Lightstream all but directly called out Streamlabs, Streamlabs issued this statement in the thread below. Engage your audience with alerts and interactive widgets.” When side by side, both websites share nearly identical verbiage such as: “Personalize Xbox And Playstation streams to Twitch without a capture card or high-end PC. However, a tweet made by the official Lightstream twitter page began to draw our eyes and ire to the fact that in the release presser and on their website, Streamlabs had copied nearly every word verbatim, including testimonials, for their new service - which is also derivative of Lightstream’s existing product. We’ve seen this in companies like Stream Elements or XSplit - which is an alternative to the open-source Open Broadcaster Software.

In the streaming space, it isn’t new for a company to have a similar idea and try to innovate. Instead you would stream to their app, which would allow the application of overlays before it was essentially sent to Twitch.

A company called Lightstream made huge strides to fix this issue a few years ago, giving you an alternative to streaming directly to Twitch or Youtube.

You typically either have to own a decent PC, a capture card, and the technological know-how to make them work - or you stream without overlays or alerts on screen via an app in the console. For many in the streaming space, console streaming has been difficult.

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